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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 mosaicing (panorama)

Image stitching (also called image mosaicing) refers to the image processing task of combining multiple overlapping images to create a (segmented) panorama image (alternatively called an image mosaic). There are three major components of image stitching:

  • Register images (so their features align)
  • Determine overlap
  • Blend

In this recipe, you will learn how to implement image stitching by registering a bunch of overlapped images using Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) features (using OpenCV-Python), warping them to match the overlapped regions, and iteratively adding new regions not present in the image mosaic so far. You will also learn how to use OpenCV-Python library's stitch class method to create image mosaic with a single method invocation.

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