Image Processing

[noobster]

Does anyone know how I could detect an object within an image? What I have to do is, isolate that object and the get measurements from it. So, all the background has to be removed. Like detecting a spoon on a table, isolate it such that only the spoon is left in the image then measure the length and width.
I recently started image processing, I have no idea how to do this. Any help would be great.

[webJose]

I have NO IDEA whatsoever, except that somewhere I head about opencv. It seems to be a HUGE library filled with algorithms ready to go. I hear it is widely used in photography. Maybe it helps.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencv/

[noobster]

Thanks, I'm starting to read the book on openCV right now.