DesertPy Downtown - Template Matching with Python and OpenCV

Summary: This demo will be a basic introduction to computer vision and image processing. We'll go over how images are typically stored in Python libraries for image processing and how to manipulate them. We'll then apply some basic functions in OpenCV to find Mario inside an image, and then apply the same methods to video to track Mario in a SMB level playthrough, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3U3a4nmyY .

Bio (just a short bit of my background): Alex graduated last year from ASU with a BS in Mathematics and a thesis in radar signal processing. Afterwards I worked as a Research Associate for the US Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, where I worked on vision-based navigation for drones. And now I'm...looking for a job in computer vision. :P