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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

Introduction


In previous chapters, you came across many technologies and techniques that may be new to you. You have learned many concepts and techniques that help solve real-world problems. Now, you are going to use all the acquired skills to complete this last chapter and build your own end-to-end robotics application.

In this chapter, you'll use a deep learning framework, Darknet, to build robots that recognize objects in real time. This framework will be integrated with ROS so that the final application can be applied to any robot. Furthermore, it's important to say that object recognition can be used for building different kinds of robotics applications.

The end-to-end applications you are going to build will not only have academic value but will also be useful for real-world problems and live situations. You will even be able to adapt how the application functions depending on circumstances. This will give you a lot of opportunities to solve real-world problems when working with robots...