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Welcome to a tutorial series, covering OpenCV, which is an image and video processing library with bindings in C++, C, Python, and Java. OpenCV is used for all sorts of image and video analysis, like facial recognition and detection, license plate reading, photo editing, advanced robotic vision, optical character recognition, and a whole lot more. We will be working through many Python examples here. Getting started with OpenCV s Python bindings is actually much easier than many people make it out to be initially. You will need two main libraries, with an optional third: pythonOpenCV, Numpy, and Matplotlib. Sample code and textbased tutorial: