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Machine Learning for OpenCV

By : Michael Beyeler
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Machine Learning for OpenCV

By: Michael Beyeler

Overview of this book

Machine learning is no longer just a buzzword, it is all around us: from protecting your email, to automatically tagging friends in pictures, to predicting what movies you like. Computer vision is one of today's most exciting application fields of machine learning, with Deep Learning driving innovative systems such as self-driving cars and Google’s DeepMind. OpenCV lies at the intersection of these topics, providing a comprehensive open-source library for classic as well as state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning algorithms. In combination with Python Anaconda, you will have access to all the open-source computing libraries you could possibly ask for. Machine learning for OpenCV begins by introducing you to the essential concepts of statistical learning, such as classification and regression. Once all the basics are covered, you will start exploring various algorithms such as decision trees, support vector machines, and Bayesian networks, and learn how to combine them with other OpenCV functionality. As the book progresses, so will your machine learning skills, until you are ready to take on today's hottest topic in the field: Deep Learning. By the end of this book, you will be ready to take on your own machine learning problems, either by building on the existing source code or developing your own algorithm from scratch!
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered quite a lot of ground, didn't we!

In short, we learned a lot about different supervised learning algorithms, how to apply them to real datasets, and how to implement everything in OpenCV. We introduced classification algorithms such as k-NN and logistic regression and discussed how they could be used to predict labels as two or more discrete categories. We introduced various variants of linear regression (such as Lasso regression and ridge regression) and discussed how they could be used to predict continuous variables. Last but not least, we got acquainted with the Iris and Boston datasets, two classics in the history of machine learning.

In the following chapters, we will go into much greater depth within these topics, and see some more interesting examples of where these concepts can be useful.

But first, we need to talk about another...