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Building a Pokedex in Python: Scraping the Pokemon Sprites (Step 2 of 6)
Figure 1: Our database of Pokemon Red, Blue, and Green sprites. What if we could build a real life Pokedex? You know, just like Ash Ketchum — point your Pokedex at a Pokemon (or in this case, snap a...
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Building a Pokedex in Python: Indexing our Sprites using Shape Descriptors...
Using shape descriptors to quantify an object is a lot like playing Who’s that Pokemon as a kid. So, how is our Pokedex going to “know” what Pokemon is in an image? How are we going to describe each...
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Building a Pokedex in Python: Finding the Game Boy Screen (Step 4 of 6)
Figure 1: Finding a Game Boy screen in an image using Python and OpenCV. Quick question. How does a Pokedex work? Well, you simply point it a Pokemon, the Pokedex examines its physical characteristics,...
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Building a Pokedex in Python: OpenCV and Perspective Warping (Step 5 of 6)
Figure 1: Performing a perspective transformation using Python and OpenCV on the Game Boy screen and cropping out the Pokemon. We’re getting closer to finishing up our real-life Pokedex! In my previous...
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Building a Pokedex in Python: Comparing Shape Descriptors with OpenCV (Step 6...
Here we are, the final step of building a real-life Pokedex in Python and OpenCV. This is where it all comes together. We’ll glue all our pieces together and put together an image search engine based...
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Announcing “Case Studies: Solving real world problems with computer vision”
I have some big news to announce today… Besides writing a ton of blog posts about computer vision, image processing, and image search engines, I’ve been behind the scenes, working on a second book....
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The complete guide to building an image search engine with Python and OpenCV
Let’s face it. Trying to search for images based on text and tags sucks. Whether you are tagging and categorizing your personal images, searching for stock photos for your company website, or simply...
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Adding a web interface to our image search engine with Flask
This is a guest post by Michael Herman from Real Python – learn Python programming and web development through hands-on, interesting examples that are useful and fun! In this tutorial, we’ll take the...
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Computing image “colorfulness” with OpenCV and Python
Today’s blog post is inspired by a question I received from a PyImageSearch reader on Twitter, @makingyouthink. Paraphrasing the tweets myself and @makingyouthink exchanged, the question was: Have you...
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