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Real-Time Face Tracking: OpenCV Control of a UR Robot

This project controls a Universal Robots UR5 using real-time face tracking built with OpenCV. A standard webcam provides a live video stream that detects a human face, computes its position
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Part 3: Simultaneous Localization & Mapping: Which SLAM Is For You? on OpenCV Live!

Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is one of the most active and contentious areas of CV & robotics. Should you use purely visual SLAM? Do you need LiDAR? What about

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OpenCV Live: The Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge 2026

This year the Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge (LPCV) has three tracks with serious prize money including Image-to-Text Retrieval, Action Recognition in Video and AI Generated Images Detection. Each track has

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From Image Features to Visual Place Recognition: OpenCV Approach

In this blog, we explore Visual Place Recognition (VPR) with hands-on examples using OpenCV and lightweight Python tools. You will create a practical VPR pipeline that includes visual descriptor extraction,
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Watershed-Segmentation Using OpenCV

Watershed Segmentation Using OpenCV

Explore the elegant intersection of nature-inspired algorithms and computer vision. This comprehensive technical guide unveils the powerful watershed segmentation technique, demonstrating how a simple topographic analogy translates into sophisticated image
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Enhancing Images: Adaptive Shadow Correction Using OpenCV

In this blog post, we'll tackle this challenge head-on with a practical approach to shadow correction using OpenCV. Our method leverages Multi-Scale Retinex (MSR) for illumination normalization, combined with adaptive
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Smart Document Scanning with Live OCR using OpenCV.js 

This blog explores how to build a smart, browser-based document scanner using OpenCV.js and live OCR. It covers document detection, perspective correction, interactive preprocessing, and client-side text extraction—all running entirely
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OpenCV G-API: From Imperative to Declarative Pipelines

Explore OpenCV G-API and how it transforms image-processing pipelines from imperative to declarative with graph-based execution.
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EgoX

EgoX: Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video

EgoX introduces a novel framework for translating third-person (exocentric) videos into realistic first-person (egocentric) videos using only a single input video. The work tackles a highly challenging problem of extreme

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Guide to Underwater Image Enhancement Using OpenCV

Underwater images often suffer from color loss, low contrast, and haze due to light absorption and scattering. This blog presents a multi-stage OpenCV pipeline in Python to enhance underwater images
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Omni Attribute

Omni-Attribute: Open-Vocabulary Attribute Encoder for Visual Concept Personalization

Omni-Attribute introduces a new paradigm for fine-grained visual concept personalization, solving a long-standing problem in image generation: how to transfer only the desired attribute (identity, hairstyle, lighting, style, etc.) without

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From Image to 3D: The Structure from Motion in OpenCV

We capture the world with cameras that compress depth, texture, and geometry into flat pixel grids, yet our minds effortlessly reconstruct the 3D structure behind them. What if computers could
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