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Object detection via color-based image segmentation using python
A tutorial on contouring using python & OpenCV.
Getting started
If you already have jupyter notebook or an IDE with which you can run python & OpenCV installed, just skip to Execution.
Tools
Our hero today is Anaconda. a free open-source distribution that helps with installing different packages & sorts out their messes into isolated environments.
What Wikipedia’s telling us about Anaconda
Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing (data science, machine learning applications, large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, etc.), that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda. The Anaconda distribution is used by over 12 million users and includes more than 1400 popular data-science packages suitable for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Here are detailed tutorials on how to download Anaconda.
anaconda for Windows & anaconda for Linux.