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Computer Vision with Python 3

By : Saurabh Kapur
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Computer Vision with Python 3

By: Saurabh Kapur

Overview of this book

<p>This book is a thorough guide for developers who want to get started with building computer vision applications using Python 3. The book is divided into five sections: The Fundamentals of Image Processing, Applied Computer Vision, Making Applications Smarter,Extending your Capabilities using OpenCV, and Getting Hands on. Throughout this book, three image processing libraries Pillow, Scikit-Image, and OpenCV will be used to implement different computer vision algorithms.</p> <p>The book aims to equip readers to build Computer Vision applications that are capable of working in real-world scenarios effectively. Some of the applications that we will look at in the book are Optical Character Recognition, Object Tracking and building a Computer Vision as a Service platform that works over the internet.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
Introduction to Computer Vision using OpenCV

Challenges in machine learning


The most important challenge that researchers in machine learning face is that of the data. How do you decide whether the data that you have is good enough? When do you say the amount of data you have is enough? These are some questions that are very difficult to answer. The main purpose of building machine learning systems is to make them as general as possible for a given scenario. Say we are trying to build a handwritten digit classification system. Can we be sure that any image of digit 5 that we provide to the system will be able to output the correct output? Suppose our training data has hand samples from five people and we test the system on digits written by a sixth person. Will it perform as good? An extension to this problem is the lack of labeled data. One of the most laborious parts of collecting data is labeling data. Over time, with collaborative efforts from researchers, there are some good quality datasets available. But if you want to apply...