This book has a purpose to provide the necessary knowledge so the reader can quickly,
practically and directly use the technologies and resources available in this project.
The content presented here is aimed at professionals and enthusiasts who have a
minimum and basic knowledge of C/C++, Computer Vision and Image processing, as the
programming syntax will not be detailed.

Each chapter will cover topics that will subsequently complete a development of an entire
project, as they follow:

Chapter 1 – A brief introduction to the technologies that will be used: OpenCV, Darknet e
YOLO.

Chapter 2 – Development environment setup on Windows (Visual Studio) and Linux, Building
and installation of OpenCV, Darknet and other necessary tools.

Chapter 3 – Design of a real-world application (digital reading and recognition of vehicle license
plates), understand the proposed problem, define a strategy and develop a solution.

Chapter 4 – Configure Darknet according to the proposed problem, create and increase the
images dataset, and perform the training of a custom YoloV4 model, that will be used in the
project mentioned in Chapter 3.

Chapter 5 – The complete and detailed development of the project mentioned in Chapter 3.

All the developed code and tools used are available in a repository on Github, with the download links in the Attachments section.