What you need for this book

This book supports several operating systems as development environments, including Windows XP or a later version, Max OS X 10.6 or a later version, and Ubuntu12.04 or a later version. The only hardware requirement is a webcam (or camera device), except for in Chapter 2, Hand Gesture Recognition Using a Kinect Depth Sensor, which instead requires access to a Microsoft Kinect 3D Sensor or an Asus Xtion.

The book contains seven projects, with the following requirements.

All projects can run on any of Windows, Mac, or Linux, and they require the following software packages:

  • OpenCV 2.4.9 or later: Recent 32-bit and 64-bit versions as well as installation instructions are available at http://opencv.org/downloads.html. Platform-specific ...

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