Books by Joseph Howse

The Girl in the Water is the story of a multiethnic group of young friends, coming of age in Estonia and Ukraine in the last days of the Soviet Union. Their lives are shaped by an Afghan war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the collapse and legacy of a suffocating society.

Now in its third edition, this is the original book on OpenCV's Python bindings. Readers will learn a great range of techniques and algorithms, from the classics to the state-of-the-art, and from geometry to machine learning. All of this is in aid of solving practical computer vision problems in well-built applications.

OpenCV 4 for Secret Agents is an updated edition of the book that introduced thousands of developers to cat face detection, real-time Eulerian video magnification, and other scintillating topics in computer vision. Now, Python 3 and Android Studio are supported. With an applied approach and a love of storytelling, the author presents projects ...

From installing OpenCV to applying geometric transformations to images and reconstructing a 3D real-world scene from images, this book will help you develop the skills needed to develop computer vision applications with the most popular computer vision library- OpenCV.

Learning to build more maintainable websites with Django either takes a lot of experience or familiarity with various pragmatic design patterns. This book will accelerate your journey into the world of web development. This new edition is updated with additional chapters and diagrams to help you get to grips with the current best practices in th...