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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)

Face alignment with dlib

Face alignment can be thought of as an image processing task consisting of the following steps:

  1. Identify the facial landmarks (or the facial geometric structure).
  2. Compute a canonical alignment by estimating a geometric transformation (for example, an affine transform) of the face to be aligned using the landmarks.

Face alignment is a data normalization process—an essential pre-processing step for many facial recognition algorithms. In this recipe, you will first learn how to use the dlib library's face detector to detect the faces from an image containing face(s) and then use the shape predictor to extract the facial landmarks from the detected faces. After that, we will warp the input face (using the estimated transformation) to the output face using the facial landmarks extracted.

The key facial attributes of a face (for example, the corners...