🧠 OpenCV Python Projects — Ashwin’s Journey

Welcome to my Computer Vision learning journey using Python + OpenCV!
This repository contains hands-on scripts and experiments — from basic image handling to real-time face detection using webcam.

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📂 Contents

• Reading and displaying images
• Saving images in different formats
• Drawing shapes (rectangle, line, circle, text)
• Image transformations (resize, rotate, threshold)
• Image filtering (Gaussian, Median, Bilateral)
• Canny edge detection
• Video reading and saving
• Face detection in images
• Real-time face detection from webcam

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🔧 Requirements

• Python 3.x
• OpenCV (opencv-python)

✅ Install dependencies

pip install opencv-python

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📸 Features

✅ Image Processing

• Load, display, and save images
• Draw shapes and add text

✅ Filters & Thresholding

• Gaussian Blur
• Median Blur
• Bilateral Filtering
• Thresholding
• Canny Edge Detection

✅ Video Processing

• Load and display video frames
• Save processed video in different formats

✅ Face Detection

• Detect faces in static images
• Detect faces in real-time from webcam
• Draw bounding boxes and save cropped faces

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🚀 How to Run

python your_script.py

For real-time face detection:

python realtime_face_detection.py

Press q to quit webcam window.

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🧠 What I Learned

• Basics of OpenCV: image I/O, transformations, and filters
• Practical face detection using Haar cascades
• Real-time computer vision with webcam
• How filters improve image quality and feature detection
• Saving images and videos in different formats

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📜 License

Open for educational use. Feel free to learn, modify, and build on top of it! 💡

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🙋‍♂️ Author

Ashwin Rao
Budding developer and tech enthusiast from SMVITM