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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

Operating on images using OpenCV-Python


Let's take a look at how to operate on images using OpenCV-Python. In this recipe, we will see how to load and display an image. We will also look at how to crop, resize, and save an image to an output file.

How to do it…

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

    import sys
    
    import cv2
    import numpy as np
  2. Specify the input image as the first argument to the file, and read it using the image read function. We will use forest.jpg, as follows:

    # Load and display an image -- 'forest.jpg'
    input_file = sys.argv[1]
    img = cv2.imread(input_file)
  3. Display the input image, as follows:

    cv2.imshow('Original', img)
  4. We will now crop this image. Extract the height and width of the input image, and then specify the boundaries:

    # Cropping an image
    h, w = img.shape[:2]
    start_row, end_row = int(0.21*h), int(0.73*h)
    start_col, end_col= int(0.37*w), int(0.92*w)
  5. Crop the image using NumPy style slicing and display it:

    img_cropped = img[start_row:end_row, start_col...