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Artificial Intelligence with Python

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Artificial Intelligence with Python

Overview of this book

Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly relevant in the modern world. By harnessing the power of algorithms, you can create apps which intelligently interact with the world around you, building intelligent recommender systems, automatic speech recognition systems and more. Starting with AI basics you'll move on to learn how to develop building blocks using data mining techniques. Discover how to make informed decisions about which algorithms to use, and how to apply them to real-world scenarios. This practical book covers a range of topics including predictive analytics and deep learning.
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Artificial Intelligence with Python
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Preface

Object tracking using background subtraction


Background subtraction is a technique that models the background in a given video, and then uses that model to detect moving objects. This technique is used a lot in video compression as well as video surveillance. It performs really well where we have to detect moving objects within a static scene. The algorithm basically works by detecting the background, building a model for it, and then subtracting it from the current frame to obtain the foreground. This foreground corresponds to moving objects.

One of the main steps here it to build a model of the background. It is not the same as frame differencing because we are not differencing successive frames. We are actually modeling the background and updating it in real time, which makes it an adaptive algorithm that can adjust to a moving baseline. This is why it performs much better than frame differencing.

Create a new Python file and import the following packages:

import cv2 
import numpy as...