I\'m having some images, of euro money bills. The bills are completely within the image and are mostly flat (e.g. little deformation) and perspective skew is small (e.g. ima
There is a good book on openCV
Using a Hough transform to find the rectangular bill shape (and angle) and then find rectangles/circles within it should be quick and easy
For more complex searching, something like a Haar classifier - if you needed to find odd corners of bills in an image?