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PyGaze (the open-source eye tracking software this project will be based on) requires OpenCV for python. Installing OpenCV 3 is a multi-step (and even time consuming) process requiring you to install many dependencies and pre-requisites. The remainder of this post talks about this process
Install dependencies
The first thing to do is update and upgrade any existing packages, followed by updating the Raspberry Pi firmware.
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get upgrade $ sudo rpi-update
You’ll need to reboot your Raspberry Pi after the firmware update:
$ sudo reboot
Now we need to install a few developer tools:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake pkg-config
Now we can move on to installing image I/O packages which allow us to load image file formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.:
$ sudo apt-get install libjpeg-dev libtiff5-dev libjasper-dev libpng12-dev
Just like we need image I/O packages, we also need video I/O packages. These packages allow us to load various video file formats as well as work with video streams:
$ sudo apt-get install libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libv4l-dev $ sudo apt-get install libxvidcore-dev libx264-dev
We need to install the GTK development library so we can compile the highgui sub-module of OpenCV, which allows us to display images to our screen and build simple GUI interfaces:
$ sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
Various operations inside of OpenCV (such as matrix operations) can be optimized using added dependencies:
$ sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev gfortran
Lastly, we’ll need to install the Python 2.7 and Python 3 header files so we can compile our OpenCV + Python bindings:
$ sudo apt-get install python2.7-dev python3-dev