Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Emgu CV -- What is Emgu CV? -- Comparing image-processing libraries -- License agreement -- Documentation and other material -- Ease of use -- Performance -- Summary of the comparison -- Advantages of Emgu CV -- Cross-platform -- Cross-language support with examples -- Other advantages -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Installing Emgu CV -- Downloading Emgu CV -- Installing Emgu CV -- Installing on Windows -- Installing on Linux -- Getting the dependency -- Building Emgu CV from source -- Installing on OS X -- Getting the dependency -- Building Emgu CV from source -- Troubleshooting -- Windows -- Linux -- OS X -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Hello World -- Hello World in C# -- Creating a new project -- Designing our form -- Coding -- Output -- Hello World in VB.NET -- Hello World in C++ -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Wrapping OpenCV -- Architecture overview -- OpenCV -- Emgu CV -- Function mapping -- Structure mapping -- Enumeration mapping -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Working with Images -- Digital image representation -- Pixels and data -- Pixel resolution -- Color image representation -- Color depth -- Working with images -- Creating an image -- Loading an image from a file -- Operations with pixels -- Method naming rules -- Using operator overload -- Generic operations support -- Garbage collection -- XML serialization -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Working with Matrices -- Matrix and the Image class -- Definition and parameters -- Working with matrices -- Creating a matrix -- Operations with elements -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Shape Detection -- Canny Edge Detector -- Hough transforms -- Hough Line transform -- Hough Circle transform -- Contour -- Contour finding -- Representation of contours -- Sequences of vertexes.

Free chain codes -- Drawing contours -- Polygon approximations -- A contours example -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Face Detection -- Biometric systems -- Camera captures -- Machine learning -- Face detection or the Haar classifier -- Boosting theory and supervised learning -- Haar-like features -- Code for face detection -- Summary -- Chapter 9: License Plate Recognition -- License Plate Recognition -- Algorithms for LPR -- OCR -- Tesseract-OCR -- Code for License Plate Recognition -- Assumption -- Source code -- GetWhitePixelMask -- DetectLicensePlate -- FindLicensePlate -- Output -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Image Stitching -- Image stitching -- Algorithms for image stitching -- Image matching -- Image calibration -- Image blending -- Code -- Summary -- Index.