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Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By : Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre
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Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics

By: Álvaro Morena Alberola, Gonzalo Molina Gallego, Unai Garay Maestre

Overview of this book

Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics begins by discussing the theory behind robots. You'll compare different methods used to work with robots and explore computer vision, its algorithms, and limits. You'll then learn how to control the robot with natural language processing commands. You'll study Word2Vec and GloVe embedding techniques, non-numeric data, recurrent neural network (RNNs), and their advanced models. You'll create a simple Word2Vec model with Keras, as well as build a convolutional neural network (CNN) and improve it with data augmentation and transfer learning. You'll study the ROS and build a conversational agent to manage your robot. You'll also integrate your agent with the ROS and convert an image to text and text to speech. You'll learn to build an object recognition system using a video. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to build a functional application that can integrate with a ROS to extract useful information about your environment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Artificial Vision and Language Processing for Robotics
Preface

Summary


CNNs have shown much better performance than fully-connected neural networks when dealing with images. In addition, CNNs are also capable of accomplishing good results with text and sound data.

CNNs have been explained in depth, as have how convolutions work and all the parameters that come along with them. Afterward, all this theory was put into practice with an exercise.

Data augmentation is a technique for overcoming a lack of data or a lack of variation in a dataset by applying simple transformations to the original data in order to generate new images. This technique has been explained and also put into practice with an exercise and an activity, where you were able to experiment with the knowledge you acquired.

Transfer learning is a technique used when there is a lack of data or the problem is so complex that it would take too long to train on a normal neural network. Also, this technique does not need much of an understanding of neural networks at all, as the model is already...