Posts in Image processing

Divide an image into blocks using GDI+ in C++

In the previous blog, we used OpenCV to divide an image into multiple blocks of a certain height and width, which is useful when we need to apply a certain image transformation block-wise. This blog will provide an alternative implementation using the Windows API, specifically the GDI+ library.

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Divide an image into blocks using OpenCV in C++

Often you will need to divide an image into multiple blocks of a certain height and width to apply a certain transformation or would like to compare two images block-wise. This blog will provide a short explanation and a C++ implementation for how to divide an image into multiple blocks with custom height and width.

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How to loop over monitors and get their coordinates on Windows in C++?

The previous three blogs (Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using OpenCV & Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using GDI+ and Comparing screen capturing using GDI+ and OpenCV on Windows in C++) described capturing a screenshot of only one monitor. However, nowadays we often use multiple monitors and capturing the content of all of them or a specific one, two or more. Therefore, we will need to retrieve the coordinates of the targeted monitors. This blog will provide a short explanation and a C++ implementation for how to loop the existing monitors in a multiple monitors setup, get their dimensions and coordinates which can be used later into capturing the monitors content.

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Comparing screen capturing using GDI+ and OpenCV on Windows in C++

To follow up on my last two blogs (Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using OpenCV & Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using GDI+ ), we compare in this post both approaches. In order to compare both approaches, we examines their run-times and CPU usages.

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Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using GDI+

GDI+/ Gdiplus is part of the Win32 API, that helps C/C++ programmers with graphics related tasks on Windows. In this blog, we will be writing a simple algorithm to capture the content of the screen on Windows using Gdiplus in C++.

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Capturing the screen on Windows in C++ using OpenCV

OpenCV is just a great computer vision tool with a wide variety of capabilities, that is available in both C++ and Python. In this first blog about OpenCV, I will be introducing a simple algorithm to capture the content of the screen on Windows using OpenCV in C++.

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