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Hands-On Computer Vision with Julia

By : Dmitrijs Cudihins
Book Image

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 to pre-trained networks

The usual way of training a neural network consists of the following steps:

  1. Preparing and labeling a dataset
  2. Developing a neural network architecture
  3. Starting to train by initializing weights randomly
  4. Training the network and iterating the process once again until the desired result is achieved
  5. Saving the model

You would expect to execute the same steps again and again as you start working on a new problem with different data. Instead of training a new network from scratch with randomly initialized weights, you can reuse the structure and weights from another working model which was previously used by you or an open community. The process of using existing neural networks to solve a different problem is referred to as using a pre-trained network. The first network is going to be your pre-trained network. The second one is the network you...