University of California, San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key.

In this “Sneakey” Computer Vision project, features of the key is extracted from the photograph and accordingly a duplicate of the key is [...]

If you are new to OpenCV or If you want to expand your knowledge in OpenCV you would find following book is useful. I’ve been using OpenCV for almost 6 years up to now. It is “the” Open Source Computer Vision Library out there.

The book includes:

A thorough introduction to OpenCV
Getting input from cameras
Transforming images
Shape matching
Pattern [...]

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