Installing OpenCV 3 on Ubuntu 12.04

Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:05:00 +0000

Compiling OpenCV 3.0 on Ubuntu 12.04

Lightweight Development Prefixes

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Interfacing Python + C + OpenCV via ctypes

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:01:48 +0000

I was recently asked to help a colleague access his image processing C-library from python; quite a common task. As those of you who are familiar with Python might realise, there are a whole bag of ways that this can be accomplished;

In this case the colleague only needed to access a single function from the library returning image data, and then hand this result onto OpenCV. One happy side effect of the new (> v2.1) python-opencv bindings is that they do no validation on CvImage.SetData , which means you can pass an arbitrary string/pointer. Because of this I advised him I thought using something like SWIG was overkill, and he could just write a wrapper to his library using ctypes, or a thin python extension directly.

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Installing OpenCV 3 on Ubuntu 12.04

Lightweight Development Prefixes

Interfacing Python + C + OpenCV via ctypes