What this book covers

Chapter 1, Preparing for the Mission helps us to install OpenCV, a Python development environment, and an Android development environment on Windows, Mac, or Linux systems. In this chapter, we also install a Unity development environment on Windows or Mac.

Chapter 2, Searching for Luxury Accommodations Worldwide helps us to classify images of real estate based on color schemes. Are we outside a luxury dwelling or inside a Stalinist apartment? In this chapter, we use the classifier in a search engine that labels its image results.

Chapter 3, Training a Smart Alarm to Recognize the Villain and His Cat helps us to detect and recognize human faces and cat faces as a means of controlling an alarm. Has Ernst Stavro Blofeld returned with his blue-eyed Angora cat?

Chapter 4, Controlling a Phone App with Your Suave Gestures helps us to detect motion and recognize gestures as a means of controlling a guessing game on a smartphone. The phone knows why Bond is nodding even if no one else does.

Chapter 5, Equipping Your Car with a Rearview Camera and Hazard Detection helps us to detect car headlights, classify their color, estimate distances to them, and provide feedback to a driver. Is that car tailing us?

Chapter 6, Seeing a Heartbeat with a Motion Amplifying Camera helps us to amplify motion in live video, in real time, so that a person's heartbeat and breathing become clearly visible. See the passion!

Chapter 7, Creating a Physics Simulation Based on a Pen and Paper Sketch helps us to draw a ball-in-a-maze puzzle on paper and see it come to life as a physics simulation on a smartphone. Physics and timing are everything!