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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)

Human skin segmentation with the GMM-EM algorithm

In this recipe, you will learn how to use a parametric model (namely, a Gaussian mixture model) to detect color and segment the pixels corresponding to human skin in an image. You will be given a dataset containing a set of RGB pixel values and their labels (whether they correspond to human skin or not). This dataset is from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, and it is collected by randomly sampling R, G, and B values from images of the faces of different age groups (young, middle-aged, old), regions, and genders. The following table shows the size of the samples in the dataset to be used:

Total learning sample size

Skin sample size

Non-skin sample size

245057

50859

194198

We shall use the YCbCr colorspace instead of RGB, since it separates the luminance from chrominances in RGB values using a linear transform...