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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

Applications of machine learning

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and data science are four terms that I believe are going to change the way we have always looked at things. Let's see if I can convince you why I believe so.

From making a computer learn how to play Go and defeat the world champion of the very same game to using the same branch to detect whether a person has a tumor or not just by seeing their brain's CT Scan, machine learning has left its mark in every single domain. One of the projects that I worked on was using machine learning to determine the residual life cycle of boiler water wall tubes in thermal power plants. The proposed solution was successful in saving a huge amount of money by using the tubes more efficiently. If you thought that machine learning applications are limited to engineering and medical science, then you...