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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 alignment with ECC algorithm and warping

The parametric image alignment problem involves finding a transformation that aligns two images. In this recipe, you will learn how to estimate the geometric transform (in terms of a warp matrix) between two images using the ECC criterion with OpenCV-Python library's implementation. Given a pair of image profiles (intensities), Ir(x) (the reference image) and lw(y) (the warped image), and a set of coordinates T={xk, k=1,..,K} (known as the target area), the alignment problem is to find the corresponding coordinate set in the warped image. Assuming φ is the given transformation model, the alignment problem can be extrapolated to the problem of estimating the parameters, p, as shown in the following screenshot:

ρ(p) is maximized with gradient-based approaches. The ECC criterion does not depend on the changes in contrast...