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    Android Application Programming with OpenCV
    Android Application Programming with OpenCV
    Android Application Programming with OpenCV
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    Android Application Programming with OpenCV

    By Joseph Howse

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    Take a smartphone from your pocket, and within a few seconds, you can snap a photo, manipulate it, and share it with the world. You have just achieved mass production of image data. With a computer vision library such as OpenCV, you can analyze and transform copious amounts of image data in real time on a mobile device. The upshot to this is that you, as developers, can provide mobile users with many new kinds of images, constantly highlighting certain visual features that are of artistic or practical interest. Android is a convenient platform for such experiments because it uses a high-level language (Java), it provides standardized interfaces for sharing image data between applications, and it is mostly open source, so everyone can study its implementation.

    Android Application Programming with OpenCV is a practical, hands-on guide that covers the fundamental tasks of computer vision—capturing, filtering, and analyzing images-with step-by-step instructions for writing both an application and reusable library classes.

    Android Application Programming with OpenCV looks at OpenCV's Java bindings for Android and dispels mysteries such as which version of these bindings to use, how to integrate with standard Android functionality for layout, event handling, and data sharing, and how to integrate with OpenGL for rendering. By following the clear, concise, and modular examples provided in this book, you will develop an application that previews, captures, and shares photos with special effects based on color manipulation, edge detection, image tracking, and 3D rendering.
    Beneath the application layer, you will develop a small but extensible library that you can reuse in your future projects. This library will include filters for selectively modifying an image based on edge detection, 2D and 3D image trackers, and adapters to convert the Android system's camera specifications into OpenCV and OpenGL projection matrices. If you want a quick start in computer vision for Android, then this is the book for you.

    By the end of Android Application Programming with OpenCV, you will have developed a computer vision application that integrates OpenCV, Android SDK, and OpenGL.

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    A step-by-step tutorial to help you master computer vision and mobile app development.

    Who this book is for

    This book is for Java developers who are new to computer vision and who would like to learn about how it is used in relation to application development. It is assumed that you have previous experience in Java, but not necessarily Android. A basic understanding of image data (for example pixels and color channels) would be helpful too. You are expected to have a mobile device running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or greater and it must have a camera.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 25, 2013
    ISBN9781849695213
    Android Application Programming with OpenCV

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      Android Application Programming with OpenCV - Joseph Howse

      Table of Contents

      Android Application Programming with OpenCV

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Setting Up OpenCV

      System requirements

      Setting up a development environment

      Getting a ready-made development environment – Tegra Android Development Pack (TAPD)

      Assembling a development environment piece-by-piece

      Getting the prebuilt OpenCV4Android

      Building OpenCV4Android from source

      Building the OpenCV samples with Eclipse

      Finding documentation and help

      Summary

      2. Working with Camera Frames

      Designing our app – Second Sight

      Creating the Eclipse project

      Enabling camera and disk access in the manifest

      Creating menu and string resources

      Previewing and saving photos in CameraActivity

      Deleting, editing, and sharing photos in LabActivity

      Summary

      3. Applying Image Effects

      Adding files to the project

      Defining the Filter interface

      Mixing color channels

      Making subtle color shifts with curves

      Processing a neighborhood of pixels with convolution filters

      Adding the filters to CameraActivity

      Summary

      4. Recognizing and Tracking Images

      Adding files to the project

      Understanding image tracking

      Writing an image tracking filter

      Adding the tracker filters to CameraActivity

      Summary

      5. Combining Image Tracking with 3D Rendering

      Adding files to the project

      Defining the ARFilter interface

      Building projection matrices in CameraProjectionAdapter

      Modifying ImageDetectionFilter for 3D tracking

      Rendering the cube in ARCubeRenderer

      Adding 3D tracking and rendering to CameraActivity

      Learning more about 3D graphics on Android

      Summary

      Index

      Android Application Programming with OpenCV

      Android Application Programming with OpenCV

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      About the Author

      Joseph Howse might be at home right now, sitting on a sofa and writing a book, or he might have dashed away with a suitcase full of books, cameras, and computers. He is equipped to see the world or at least to do his work in computer vision.

      He is a software developer at Ad-Dispatch (Canada), where he makes augmented reality games for iOS and Android. Thanks to computer vision, the games can make use of real-world props such as a child's drawings, toys, or blanket-forts.

      He also provides training and consulting services. He is currently consulting at Market Beat (El Salvador) on an embedded systems project that uses OpenCV for face recognition.

      He holds three masters degrees in Computer Science, International Development Studies, and Business Administration (Dalhousie University, Canada). His research has been published by ISMAR (International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Realities), and he would love to meet you there if you go.

      Android Application Programming with OpenCV is Joe's second book with Packt. His first book, OpenCV Computer Vision with Python, includes an introduction to face tracking and depth cameras (for example, Kinect) on Windows, Mac, and Linux.

      Joe likes cats, kittens, oceans, and seas. Felines and saline water sustain him. He lives with his multi-species family in Halifax, on Canada's Atlantic coast.

      I am able to write—and to enjoy writing—because I am constantly encouraged by the memory of Sam and by the companionship of Mom, Dad, and the cats. They are my fundamentals.

      I am indebted to my editors and reviewers for guiding this book to completion. Their professionalism, courtesy, good judgment, and passion for books are much appreciated.

      About the Reviewers

      Karan Kedar Balkar has been working as an independent Android application developer since the past four years. Born and brought up in Mumbai, he holds a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering. He has written over 50 programming tutorials on his personal blog (http://karanbalkar.com), covering popular technologies and frameworks.

      At present, he is working as a software engineer. He has been trained on various technologies including Java, Oracle, and .NET. Apart from being passionate about technology, he loves to write poems and travel to different places. He likes listening to music and enjoys playing the guitar.

      Firstly, I would like to thank my parents for their constant support and encouragement. I would also like to thank my friends Srivatsan Iyer, Ajit Pillai, and Prasaanth Neelakandan for always inspiring and motivating me.

      I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Packt Publishing for giving me a chance to be a part of the reviewing process.

      Rohit Bhat is a Computer Science graduate from BITS Pilani, India, currently working as a Software Specialist in a leading Big Data Analytics firm. He has done projects in a variety of fields of technology encompassing Data Mining, Android Development, Open CV, Swarm Intelligence, Workflow Automation, and Video Conferencing platform. He loves to keep himself abreast of the latest technology and can always be found ready for a discussion on any topic under the sun. He is also interested in reading, startup, economics, and current affairs. He likes to write and is a freelance blogger in his spare time.

      He is currently writing a book for Packt on Bonita Open Solution, a technology which he has used extensively for Workflow Automation and Business Process Modeling.

      Viral Parekh is a young graduate of Computer Science. He is a skilled mobile application developer. He has a grip on the various open source libraries such as OpenCV, OpenNI (Open Natural Interaction), FFmpeg, and video4linux. He is keen to work in the field of Human computer Interaction and Augmented reality.

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      Preface

      This book will show you how to use OpenCV's Java bindings in an Android app that displays a camera feed, saves and shares photos, manipulates colors and edges, and tracks real-world objects in 2D or 3D. Integration with OpenGL is also introduced so that you can start building augmented reality (AR) apps that superimpose virtual 3D scenes on tracked objects in

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