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SimpleCV is an Open Source Framework for Machine Vision

SimpleCV is a Framework of several machine vision and statistical libraries whose goal is to create an Open Source Matlab-like interface for working with image processing.

Its core functions are derived from OpenCV, the Python Imaging Library (PIL), the Python Scientific Computing Library (Scipy), and PyGame.

More information is available at SimpleCV's website.

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The difference between simpleCV and openCV

I don't know which one to use. which is the best one actually ??? Or else, are both of them the same ??? In some article, I read that simpleCV is sort of an interface which gives you access to openCV. I don't understand that point. Then why do we…
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Stroke Width Transform (SWT) implementation (Python)

Can anyone describe how can i implement SWT in python using opencv or simplecv ?
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Accurate binary image classification

I'm trying to extract letters from a game board for a project. Currently, I can detect the game board, segment it into the individual squares and extract images of every square. The input I'm getting is like this (these are individual letters): At…
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Industrial vision camera with Python

Is there any industrial computer vision camera that comes with a Python interface, or that has a well developed third-party solution? I have been doing some work using webcams, which are easily accessible through for example OpenCV. However, now I…
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import cv2 works but import cv2.cv as cv not working

I think the sys path is correct, cv.pyd and cv.pyd reside in c:\OpenCV2.3\build\Python\2.7\Lib\site-packages. >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', 'C:\\Python27\\Lib\\idlelib', 'C:\\Python27\\lib\\site-packages\\pil-1.1.7-py2.7-win32.egg', …
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Size of BoundingBox/ROI to track object keeps on increasing despite fixed initial size

I am trying to track my hand based on the area using Media Flow Tracker but the bounding box keeps increasing after some time. It works properly for the first 10 seconds or so. Here's a code snippet: def main(): display = SimpleCV.Display() cam =…
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Computer Vision: How to split horizontally an image by the line with least entropy?

I have an image that has a regions which are non white (ex. paragraph but not dealing with OCR). The space between these regions somewhat regular, a person looking at the image will be able to see there are white spaces between these regions. What I…
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Why would a python framework installation guide advise the use of easy_install for some required packages and pip for others?

After a failed attempt at a "streamlined" install of the SimpleCV framework superpack for Windows. I'm now working through a manual installation guide (which I'm OK with as I have more control over the installation and might finally learn about…
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uEye camera with python on Windows

I need to get a uEye camera working with python on Windows in order to take pictures and operate on the live stream. Since uEye cameras are widely spread industrial cameras I would have thought that there is a standard solution to this; however, I…
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Unable to use webbrowser.open in python / SimpleCV on Arch

I'm working on a simple CV project making use of SimpleCV on Arch Linux. Displaying images and feeds through the repl in individual windows works fine, however using a browser for displaying does not…
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Computer Vision, Detecting roads, where to start?

I am an EE undergrad, I am working on a project that requires me to detect roads (primarily the turns). The requirement is that, given the GPS coordinates and directions of the turns, the robot should be able to navigate it's way to a given point.…
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Image Conversion between cv2, cv, mahotas, and SimpleCV

I am having to do a lot of vision related work in Python lately, and I am facing a lot of difficulties switching between formats. When I read an image using Mahotas, I cannot seem to get it to cv2, though they are both using numpy.ndarray. SimpleCV…
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OpenCV Lip Segmentation

How do people usually extract the shape of the lips once the mouth region is found (in my case using haar cascade)? I tried color segmentation and edge/corner detection but they're very inaccurate for me. I need to find the two corners and the very…
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Pygame Segmentation error when using the SimpleCV library findBlob function

I have been using SimpleCV for find blobs to be used with a self-driving robot. The problem is when I call the findBlobs command in SimpleCV. When I completely block the lens of the Kinect Camera, PyGame crashes giving me this error: Fatal Python…
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SimpleCV Webcam getImage() error (no attribute 'threaded')

I'm trying to run a basic script to get a feed from my webcam using SimplecCV 1.3.0 with a Logitech HD C270 webcam(also tried Logitech tessar 2.0/3.7) on 64 bit Linux Mint 12. When I trun the following script from SimpleCV import * cam =…
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