OpenCV Python Tutorial #1 - Introduction & Images

Welcome to a brand new series on OpenCV and Python. I'll start this episode with a quick introduction to OpenCV, in case some of your aren't familiar with it. I'll also talk about how to install OpenCV, loading an image into OpenCV, as well as manipulating an image within OpenCV.
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00:00 | Introduction & Series Overview
01:46 | Installation & Setup
05:45 | Loading an Image
07:56 | Displaying an Image
10:35 | Resizing an Image
12:45 | Rotating an Image
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Before I looked at OpenCV code without understanding a single thing I was so confused Now that I've understood the basics its started to become MUCH more clear Thanks a lot!

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Could not find a good opencv tutorial, thanks Tim! Please continue this series

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Hi Tim, I've been following you for some time now and I think this is one of the best tutorial series you could create. I'm also University student and I wanna build my own project with text recognition so I would love to see some tutorials on TEXT RECOGNITION, bye!

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Amazing, thank you so much for this series already! My suggestion for future topics is edge detection plus calculating the distance(s) between edges. For example, distance between center points of 2 edges, distances from one ending / starting point of edge A to ending / starting point of edge B. Cheers!

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Yeah!! Awesome series! 😎 I really want full stack computer vision projects with deployment. Thank you!

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Good stuff. Looking forward to the rest of the series.

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OpenCv and its opportunities are countless and great, cant wait to see, hear and learn about it from you :)

[@Psychetwo]

This was actually quite interesting! very great first tutorial for beginners to opencv! Was able to follow along. Going on to Tutorial #2 :) Thank you for making these python videos!

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Surely we would love it to continue..❤️❤️

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Not gonna lie, I wanted to learn OpenCV, tried to learn on youtube a couple years ago, and decided to wait for time to upload. Already learnt a ton from the Django + react full-stack course :)

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This is the series I have been wating for long time!

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I have been looking for a really good OpenCV series for ages and when i found this by the amazing TWT, i was like this is amazing. I am going to be sharing this in a few coding servers i help in

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Thanks TWT your channel is like a goldmine for lots and lots of us

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Thank you for this series. Fantastic!

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Amazing tutorial! Precise and concise. Thank you loads man

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The series i was waiting for.i just wanted to know that in much days you would cover this series to much advanced level

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Waiting for this. Finally please continue this series... Please upload more videos in this series❤️❤️❤️😀😀.. Want to learn this from so many months... Please upload more videos on this.... Go deep in open cv...

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Looking forward for this series to grow. Please consider the following topics, would be great help. Image segmentation SLAM using open cv Image analytics

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Perfect timing, Tim! Keep it up!

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Really nice explainations : short and clear. I'm more a C++ programmer and I'm astonished to see how concise python can be to manipulate arrays.

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Most awaited series. Thank you Tim. ❤️ From India.

[@salhjasa]

Just yesterday I started with opencv. This will be much better to understand it than the book I am using it hahahah. Thank you Tim big fan of your work.

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Finally. Just the video series that I need.

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Thanks Tim for this awesome video. I realised that the parameter passed in the waitKey function is in milliseconds not seconds and so to display the image for 5seconds, you'd need to write waitKey(5000). Thanks so much once again.

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Thanks for a tutorial on OpenCV!! Needed it a lot THANKS!!!!!!

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Hi Tim. Excellent tutorial. Thanks for creating it.

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Two months ago I defended my MA thesis. Topic: "Automatic recognition of stickers used in the production process." (Recognizing the number on the sticker) I investigated three different methods: OpenCV - matchTemplate, OpenCV - SIFT descriptors, and finally neural networks (tensorflow, convolutional neural networks). Problems to solve: rotated images, wrong perspective, etc. I would love to see something like this in your performance, as well as methods for recognizing text from photos. Nice tutorial!

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Wonderful series and super psyched. Thanks a lot for starting this. One thing I’d love to see is object detection in a video content, whereby we could detect unknown (and known) objects in a video. If you could do something with that, I’d watch them fur.sure. Thanks and looking forewords to all the new vids.

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Easy to follow as always - keep up the good work. Would be interesting to learn how to read, edit, and display video with opencv.

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Let's go Been waiting for this series for ages

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actually the time we put into the 'waitkey()' has unit of millisecond and your video is super cool !!!

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Thanks tim You are an inspiration to all of us

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I was just searching about it...and u come up with this... Awesome 😘

[@gourabchakraborty4064]

Hi Tim, thanks for making these tutorial videos, really helpful in my project work. Will it be possible to make some tutorials related to image processing and image recognition? Particularly those on how to distinguish between overlapping images (e.g bright spots detected on camera)?

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please try to continue this tutorial we really need it and i like the way you explain good job i appreciate

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wow this is so great. i tried learning opencv by reading some pdfs but it was boring so i searched it on youtube and found you

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Super excited for this!!

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Thank you TIM Very clear explanation ❤️

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Keep going i am really excited

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Hey Tim, A big thanks for this series I was waiting for that for so long. I have watched other tutorials but they were so boring so thanks! I think it's gonna help a lot of peoples. Can you introduce a bit of TensorFlow in this series and how to make object detection with open cv? Big thumb up!

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Hi there, thanks a lot for your helpful lessons. I will be watching this useful series on opencv.

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I recently started getting really hyped about learning AI thanks to the netflix series "Start-up" where the main character makes a really good visual recognition AI that can describe what it sees and that's why I started doing your tutorial on Flappy bird to learn a bit about neat ai. One thing I would love to see in this series of tutorial would be a project that can categorize somehow what it sees on the webcam, for example showing a train. I think ml5js can do something like that (I didn't learn it yet but I remember seeing something of the kind made by Dan Shiffman

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thanks for the tutorial, i wait for the rest

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me too

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Waiting for this!

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very well explained. Pease make complete series

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I hope you continue this tutorial. It definitely add a fun and exciting skill to any Python learner even if it's not the major of interest. I have a question: does OpenCV substitute Pillow? Thank you very much.

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Finally, thank you very much!

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14:25 this video WAS very interesting haha. Thanks! Pretty simple and basic introduction to OpenCV

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Yes Please make more videos in this series..

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Almost everyone on KZbin finish an opencv course by doing facial recog using haar cascade.....would be interesting and unique to see you teach something new and something epic.

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infinite loop love it haha need the () in the function tho.

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I am impressed!

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I dont really know a lot of OpenCV, but I would like you to explain thresholds properly (not just the syntax), also please make a cool OpenCV project at the end. Love your vids Tim.

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