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Machine Learning for OpenCV 4 - Second Edition

By : Aditya Sharma, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali, Michael Beyeler
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Machine Learning for OpenCV 4 - Second Edition

By: Aditya Sharma, Vishwesh Ravi Shrimali, Michael Beyeler

Overview of this book

OpenCV is an opensource library for building computer vision apps. The latest release, OpenCV 4, offers a plethora of features and platform improvements that are covered comprehensively in this up-to-date second edition. You'll start by understanding the new features and setting up OpenCV 4 to build your computer vision applications. You will explore the fundamentals of machine learning and even learn to design different algorithms that can be used for image processing. Gradually, the book will take you through supervised and unsupervised machine learning. You will gain hands-on experience using scikit-learn in Python for a variety of machine learning applications. Later chapters will focus on different machine learning algorithms, such as a decision tree, support vector machines (SVM), and Bayesian learning, and how they can be used for object detection computer vision operations. You will then delve into deep learning and ensemble learning, and discover their real-world applications, such as handwritten digit classification and gesture recognition. Finally, you’ll get to grips with the latest Intel OpenVINO for building an image processing system. By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills you need to use machine learning for building intelligent computer vision applications with OpenCV 4.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Machine Learning and OpenCV
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Section 2: Operations with OpenCV
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Section 3: Advanced Machine Learning with OpenCV

Building your own estimator

In this book, we visited a whole variety of machine learning tools and algorithms that OpenCV provides straight out of the box. And, if for some reason, OpenCV does not provide exactly what we are looking for, we can always fall back on scikit-learn.

However, when tackling more advanced problems, you might find yourself wanting to perform some very specific data processing that neither OpenCV nor scikit-learn provide, or you might want to make slight adjustments to an existing algorithm. In this case, you may want to create your own estimator.

Writing your own OpenCV-based classifier in C++

Since OpenCV is one of those Python libraries that does not contain a single line of Python code under the...