OpenCV VS CImg

- [ OpenCV](https://opencv.org/) instead of YoloV8 for computer vision and object detection

I came across a very interesting [project]( (4) Mckay Wrigley on Twitter: "My goal is to (hopefully!) add my house to the dataset over time so that I have an indoor assistant with knowledge of my surroundings. It’s basically just a slow process of building a good enough dataset. I hacked this together for 2 reasons: 1) It was fun, and I wanted to…" / X ) made by Mckay Wrigley and I was wondering what's the easiest way to implement it using free, open-source software. Here's what he used originally, followed by some open source candidates I'm considering but would love feedback and advice before starting: Original Tools: - YoloV8 does the heavy lifting with the object detection - OpenAI Whisper handles voice - GPT-4 handles the “AI” - Google Custom Search Engine handles web browsing - MacOS/iOS handles streaming the video from my iPhone to my Mac - Python for the rest Open Source Alternatives: - [ OpenCV](https://opencv.org/) instead of YoloV8 for computer vision and object detection - Replacing GPT-4 is still a challenge as I know there are some good open-source LLms like Llama 2, but I don't know how to apply this in the code perhaps in the form of api - [DeepSpeech](https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech) rather than Whisper for offline speech-to-text - [Coqui TTS](https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS) instead of Whisper for text-to-speech - Browser automation with [Selenium](https://www.selenium.dev/) instead of Google Custom Search - Stream video from phone via RTSP instead of iOS integration - Python for rest of code I'm new to working with tools like OpenCV, DeepSpeech, etc so would love any advice on the best way to replicate the original project in an open source way before I dive in. Are there any good guides or better resources out there? What are some pitfalls to avoid? Any help is much appreciated!

Glancing at the code, I think it's detectMultiScaleNoGrouping and then the operator() of CascadeClassifierInvoker gets called. It will probably help you to put a breakpoint and step through that bit of the code.

On GitHub https://github.com/opencv/opencv

OpenCV

You also need C++ if you're going to do things which aren't built in as part of the engine. As an example if you're looking at using compute shaders, inbuilt native APIs such as a mobile phone's location services, or a third-party library such as OpenCV, then you're going to need C++.

wget -O opencv.zip https://github.com/opencv/opencv/archive/4.1.0.zip

Another option is using the OpenCV library with Python to extract features from images and compare them using feature matching algorithms like SIFT, SURF, or ORB. This approach is more computationally intensive but might be more accurate in identifying near-duplicates. You can find more information about OpenCV here: https://opencv.org/

It looks promising.

I like the way each algorithm is explained with minimal example and demo images.

I'm looking for such a lightweight vision lib to embed simple image manipulation programs on tiny ESP32-CAM boards.

OpenCV seems too heavy to integrate on such small devices.

So far, I've been able to develop simple image processing programs with CImg[1] (simple filtering, image cropping, adding text).

I'll try to spend some time exploring this SOD lib, thank you for sharing.

[1] https://cimg.eu/