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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 Classification

In this chapter, we will learn about the image classification problem, which is a supervised machine learning task of assigning (the most likely) label to an input image from a fixed set of labels (categories ). We will also learn how to classify images using different Python libraries. This is one of the core problems in image processing that has a large variety of practical applications. Moreover, many other seemingly different image-processing tasks (such as object detection and segmentation) can be reduced to image classification. Image classification refers to the process of assigning a label to (that is, classifying) an image based on its visual content. For example, a binary image classification algorithm (model) may be developed to predict whether a human is in an image.

In this chapter, you will primarily learn how to implement two types of image...