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Python Image Processing Cookbook

By : Sandipan Dey
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Python Image Processing Cookbook

By: Sandipan Dey

Overview of this book

With the advancements in wireless devices and mobile technology, there's increasing demand for people with digital image processing skills in order to extract useful information from the ever-growing volume of images. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the relevant tools and algorithms, and guides you through analysis and visualization for image processing. With the help of over 60 cutting-edge recipes, you'll address common challenges in image processing and learn how to perform complex tasks such as object detection, image segmentation, and image reconstruction using large hybrid datasets. Dedicated sections will also take you through implementing various image enhancement and image restoration techniques, such as cartooning, gradient blending, and sparse dictionary learning. As you advance, you'll get to grips with face morphing and image segmentation techniques. With an emphasis on practical solutions, this book will help you apply deep learning techniques such as transfer learning and fine-tuning to solve real-world problems. By the end of this book, you'll be proficient in utilizing the capabilities of the Python ecosystem to implement various image processing techniques effectively.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Image Restoration

Image restoration is an image-processing technique that tries to recover a corrupted image by modeling the degradation process with prior knowledge (for example, the degradation filter is assumed to be known in most of the cases). Then, it improves the image by applying an inverse process to restore the original image. Unlike image enhancement techniques, in image restoration, the degradation is modeled. This enables the effects of the degradation to be (largely) removed. The challenge is the loss of information and noise. The following diagram shows a basic image degradation model, where the observed (degraded) image is assumed to be a sum of the original (noiseless) image convoluted with a degradation kernel and an additive noise component:

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes for image restoration:

  • Restoring an image with the Wiener filter...