Learn by Doing

A guided project is a hands-on tutorial designed to help you learn a particular technology by doing a real project. It includes step-by-step instructions with explanations, examples and exercises that can be followed and practiced in a lab environment. Hands-on skills are highly sought out by employers when determining job readiness. Guided projects are

interactive, on-demand and will equip you with practical abilities that can be applied on the job!

A Look at the Project Ahead

Have you ever wondered what techniques are used to make photo filters like the ones present in applications such as Adobe Photoshop? Well the answer is computer vision and image processing techniques! Or wondered how your photographs would look like as art work?

In this project you will learn how to use built-in OpenCV functions to transform your photographs into artistic paintings and sketches. OpenCV is a powerful and popular open source computer vision and image processing library that contains an extensive set of algorithms. We will be utilizing this library to transform your photographs into artwork!

Express your creativity with technology using OpenCV in python, all while learning about some common and basic image processing and computer vision techniques!

More specifically after this lab you will be able to:

Convert colored images to grayscale
Apply the Gaussian filter to smooth an image
Detect the edges of an image using the Gradient Magnitude
Convert a grayscale image to a binary image
Create a pencil sketch of an image in OpenCV
Create a water painting of an image in OpenCV

What You’ll Need

To do this project, you will need the following:

A very basic knowledge of Python

Your Instructor

Yasmine Hemmati, IBM

Transform Photos to Sketches and Paintings with OpenCV

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