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OpenCV Object Detection in Games

Learn how to use Python and OpenCV for object detection in video games.

OpenCV Object Detection in Games Python Tutorial #1
OpenCV is an open source computer vision library with hundreds of functions for processing and understanding images. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you …
Thresholding with Match Template
Detect multiple objects with OpenCV's match template function by using thresholding. In this tutorial, we dig into the details of how this works. Links GitHub …
Grouping Rectangles into Click Points
Learn the trick to using OpenCV groupRectangles() for multiple object detection. This is part 3 in the OpenCV Python tutorial for gaming. Links Grab the …
Fast Window Capture
Learn how to capture window data in real-time as a video stream for processing with OpenCV. We try several different methods searching for the fastest …
Real-time Object Detection
Learn how to detect objects inside a game window in real-time using OpenCV. Links Grab the code on GitHub: https://github.com/learncodebygaming/opencv_tutorials In the first three parts …
HSV Color Range Thresholding
Improve your object detection by using the HSV Thresholding technique in OpenCV. I'll also show you how to use the OpenCV GUI builder to adjust …
Canny Edge Detection? ORB Feature Matching?
Learn from my explorations with using Canny Edge Detection and ORB Feature Matching to detect objects in video games in real-time. Links Grab the code …
Training a Cascade Classifier
In this tutorial, we train an OpenCV Cascade Classifier entirely on Windows to detect objects in a video game in real-time. Making your own Haar …
How To Build a Bot with OpenCV
Learn how to combine OpenCV object detection with PyAutoGUI and Threading to build a custom Python video game bot. Using the OpenCV image recognition techniques …
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