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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)

Estimating a human pose using a deep learning model

Human pose estimation is an image processing/computer vision task that predicts different keypoints' (joints/landmarks—for example, elbows, knees, neck, shoulder, hips, and chest) locations in the human skeleton, representing the pose (orientation) of a human (sets of coordinates are connected to find a person's overall pose). A limb/pair is defined by a valid connection between two parts; some combinations of two parts may not form valid pairs.

Multiperson pose estimation is harder than its single-person counterpart, as both the number of people in an image along with the locations are not known. As a bottom-up approach to solve this problem, all parts of the image for all the featured people are first detected and then those parts corresponding to individuals are associated/grouped. A popular bottom-up approach...