Feasibility Study of Detecting the Angle of Elevation and Angle of Bearing using OpenCV

Abstract

OpenCV is a widely used computer vision tool used for image processing and computer vison and machine learning applications. OpenCV can be used to detect the angle of elevation and angle of bearing of a linear object using the principles of object detection. This approach can be applicable for different types of computer vision/Artificial Intelligence and robotics applications in real-time object detection. Detecting the angle of elevation and angle of bearing can be resolved by taking 2 points at a certain distance in a linear body and by obtaining the coordinates of these points with respect to a fixed reference line specified. Then the angle of elevation and angle of bearing can be obtained in radians using the basic trigonometric concepts. This technique is currently developed in C++ language using OpenCV library, also this can be implemented in other programming languages as Python and C# and other computer vision tools like MATLAB, Tensorflow and Pytorch. But the concept explained here is original, straightforward and anyone can easily implement this concept to their applications