Tutorial for Open CV with Visual Studio installation

Tutorial for Open CV with Visual Studio installation

Install OpenCV software and interact with Visual studio on a Microsoft Windows 7 computer

Keywords: Open CV, Visual studio, integrated development environment,

Arthor: Poyuan Han Date: 11/14/2014

Executive Summary

OpenCV is a tool for both academic and commercial use. It is interface in C++, C, Python, and support Windows, MacOS, and Linux. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with strong focus on real-time applications. Visual studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft Windows. It supports varies programming language with code editor, such as in C++, and C.

Objective

This application note will explain how to install OpenCV on Windows and interact with Visual studio step by step.

Introduction

OpenCV is a library of many inbuilt functions mainly aimed at real- time image processing. This application areas are include such as 2D and 3 D feature toolkits, Motion detection, and Object identification. It can be written in C and C++. Visual studio is a suitable program for interact with C++ and C, and also support with Windows 7, which is friendly use in public.

Hardware

This application is require minimum Windows 7 computer. It can be either desktop or laptop. The OpenCV is require 3.5GB memory. Make sure there is enough memory on hard drive on computer

Software

The primary software for this application is Visual studio. Once we have hardware set up and hard drive ready in use. The OpenCV installation process is on next step

Environmental variable set up

GO to "My computer" and right click it, and click drop down menu, If the system type is 64 bit operating system, the system architecture is x64. In this tutorial we are using vc11 as compiler type, and the supporting complier types of OpenCV is C:\opencv\build\x64 in this case.

Next, click "Advance System Setting"

Click" Enviroment Variable" Then click "New" button Type OPENCV_DIR as Variable name, and type C:\opencv\build\ as Variable value Then click ok, once is finished

Now we are going to edit a system variable, click "Path" inside the list of System variable, and click "Edit".

Add ;%OPENCV_DIR%\x86\vc11\bin in the Variable value

The OpenCV installation process is complete, next step is Visual Studio configuration

Configure Visual Studio

Start Microsoft Visual Studio. GO to File>New Project> Installed>Visual C++. Select "Win32 Console Application". Then, enter the name of the file and location as you choose. Press OK after is finish.

Press "Ctrl+W" and release it. Then press "S" in keyboard. The "solution Explorer" window will show up

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