[Baypiggies] Presentation on PIL at August 22 meeting

[John Wegis]

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Garrett Davis <garrettdaviscpa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, fellow baypiggies,
>
> I volunteered to do a talk on the Python Imaging Library ("PIL") for our
> August meeting.  Here are my first-impressions on what I intend to cover.
> If you have any suggestions, or specific questions about PIL,
> please send them to me and I'll try to accommodate them in the talk,
> time and my knowledge permitting.
>
>
> Abstract:
>
> Could you use PIL to program a self-driving car?  Probably not.
> But if you have Photoshop, or envy people who have it,
> and you want to do cool Photoshop tricks inside a Python program,
> you should check out the PIL package.
> You can write familiar-looking Python source code to work with images
> using PIL, but it has C code to do the heavy number-crunching quickly.
> There are versions of PIL for Windows, Linux, and Max OS-X.
> PIL doesn't work with Py3.x or 64-bit Python, but there is a 'fork' of
> PIL,
> called Pillow, which does.
>
> We will see how to use PIL for things like these:
>  * image cropping, resizing, 'noise cleaning'
>  * 'Watermarking': embed a copyright notice into a photo
>  * 'Green-screen' editing: paste your face into the Last Supper painting
>
>  And we'll talk about applications in image analysis, like these:
>  * Motion detection, using a webcam
>  * Text recognition ("OCR")
>  * Face recognition
>  * License-plate recognition, like they have on toll bridges and highways
>
> Links:
>
> PIL overview: links to downloads and documentation
>     effbot.org/zone/pil-index.htm
>
>
> "Pillow: the sequel"
>     https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow
>
>
> Speaker:
>
> Gary Davis has been writing programs, large and small, since 1964.
> He used to write huge programs for insurance companies, but now he is
> doing real-time scorekeeping at auto races, using a video camera
> and image-recognition software written with Python and PIL.
> He will probably show photos, and tell stories, from the Monterey Reunion
> historic car races, where he will be running his video-scoring system
> the weekend before the talk.
>
>
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