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Hands-On Computer Vision with Julia

By : Dmitrijs Cudihins
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Hands-On Computer Vision with Julia

By: Dmitrijs Cudihins

Overview of this book

Hands-On Computer Vision with Julia is a thorough guide for developers who want to get started with building computer vision applications using Julia. Julia is well suited to image processing because it’s easy to use and lets you write easy-to-compile and efficient machine code. . This book begins by introducing you to Julia's image processing libraries such as Images.jl and ImageCore.jl. You’ll get to grips with analyzing and transforming images using JuliaImages; some of the techniques discussed include enhancing and adjusting images. As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll learn how to classify images, cluster them, and apply neural networks to solve computer vision problems. In the concluding chapters, you will explore OpenCV applications to perform real-time computer vision analysis, for example, face detection and object tracking. You will also understand Julia's interaction with Tesseract to perform optical character recognition and build an application that brings together all the techniques we introduced previously to consolidate the concepts learned. By end of the book, you will have understood how to utilize various Julia packages and a few open source libraries such as Tesseract and OpenCV to solve computer vision problems with ease.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Assessments

Introduction

You may have already seen that running corner detection on a simple image can return thousands of different features, and precisely mapping them with another image could be an issue when using classic computer vision techniques.

We need a tool that can express a human-like behavior to solve this problem quickly and efficiently, and that is where deep learning and neural networks step in.

Deep learning has become one of the hottest topics in the industry. Indeed, neural networks have proven to solve complex problems efficiently, such as image recognition or natural language speech. Luckily for us, we have a solution in Julia to follow the hype!

Let's jump into a quick introduction to neural networks and MXNet and quickly proceed to the programming part.

The need for...