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Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By : Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook

By: Prateek Joshi, Vahid Mirjalili

Overview of this book

Machine learning is becoming increasingly pervasive in the modern data-driven world. It is used extensively across many fields such as search engines, robotics, self-driving cars, and more. With this book, you will learn how to perform various machine learning tasks in different environments. We’ll start by exploring a range of real-life scenarios where machine learning can be used, and look at various building blocks. Throughout the book, you’ll use a wide variety of machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems and use Python to implement these algorithms. You’ll discover how to deal with various types of data and explore the differences between machine learning paradigms such as supervised and unsupervised learning. We also cover a range of regression techniques, classification algorithms, predictive modeling, data visualization techniques, recommendation engines, and more with the help of real-world examples.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Python Machine Learning Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Detecting SIFT feature points


Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) is one of the most popular features in the field of Computer Vision. David Lowe first proposed this in his seminal paper, which is available at https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~lowe/papers/ijcv04.pdf. It has since become one of the most effective features to use for image recognition and content analysis. It is robust against scale, orientation, intensity, and so on. This forms the basis of our object recognition system. Let's take a look at how to detect these feature points.

How to do it…

  1. Create a new Python file, and import the following packages:

    import sys
    
    import cv2
    import numpy as np 
  2. Load the input image. We will use table.jpg:

    # Load input image -- 'table.jpg'
    input_file = sys.argv[1]
    img = cv2.imread(input_file)
  3. Convert this image to grayscale:

    img_gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
  4. Initialize the SIFT detector object and extract the keypoints:

    sift = cv2.xfeatures2d.SIFT_create()
    keypoints = sift.detect(img_gray,...