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-/*
-* starter_image_sequence.cpp
-*
-*  Created on: July 23, 2012
-*      Author: Kevin Hughes
-*
-* A simple example of how to use the built in functionality of cv::VideoCapture to handle
-* sequences of images. Image sequences are a common way to distribute data sets for various
-* computer vision problems, for example the change detection data set from CVPR 2012
-* http://www.changedetection.net/
-*
-*/
-
-#include <opencv2/core/core.hpp>
-#include <opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp>
-
-#include <iostream>
-
-using namespace cv;
-using namespace std;
-
-void help(char** argv) 
-{
-    cout << "\nThis program gets you started reading a sequence of images using cv::VideoCapture.\n"
-         << "Image sequences are a common way to distribute video data sets for computer vision.\n"
-         << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <path to the first image in the sequence>\n"
-         << "example: " << argv[0] << " right%%02d.jpg\n"
-         << "q,Q,esc -- quit\n"
-         << "\tThis is a starter sample, to get you up and going in a copy pasta fashion\n"
-         << endl;
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char** argv)
-{
-    if(argc != 2) 
-    {
-        help(argv);
-        return 1;
-    }
-
-    string arg = argv[1];
-    VideoCapture sequence(arg);
-    if (!sequence.isOpened())
-    {
-        cerr << "Failed to open Image Sequence!\n" << endl;
-        return 1;
-    }
-    
-    Mat image;
-    namedWindow("Image | q or esc to quit", CV_WINDOW_NORMAL);
-    
-    for(;;)
-    {
-        sequence >> image;
-        if(image.empty())
-        {
-            cout << "End of Sequence" << endl;
-            break;
-        }
-        
-        imshow("image | q or esc to quit", image);
-
-        char key = (char)waitKey(500);
-        if(key == 'q' || key == 'Q' || key == 27)
-            break;
-    }
-
-    return 0;
-}