Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Wassup! Welcome to the OpenCV Basics series. In this series, we'll be going through all the basics of OpenCV from the ground up. In this first video you'll learn how to get up and running with OpenCV.

In this video you'll learn how to:
1. Install OpenCV in Jupyter and Colab
2. Import OpenCV into a Notebook
3. Run Hist and Optical Flow Samples

Get the code: github.com/nicknochnack/OpenCV-Basics

Links
Documentation: docs.opencv.org/4.5.4
Python Tutorials: docs.opencv.org/4.5.4/d6/d00/tutorial_py_root.html
Download Samples from here: opencv.org/releases

Chapters:
0:00 - Start
0:24 - Gameplan
1:53 - Install OpenCV
2:40 - Importing OpenCV
3:51 - Testing Samples
6:33 - Run Image Histogram Sample
8:54 - Run Optical Flow Sample

Oh, and don't forget to connect with me!
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Happy coding!
Nick

P.s. Let me know how you go and drop a comment if you need a hand!