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Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi
Book Image

Python Machine Learning Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Giuseppe Ciaburro, Prateek Joshi

Overview of this book

This eagerly anticipated second edition of the popular Python Machine Learning Cookbook will enable you to adopt a fresh approach to dealing with real-world machine learning and deep learning tasks. With the help of over 100 recipes, you will learn to build powerful machine learning applications using modern libraries from the Python ecosystem. The book will also guide you on how to implement various machine learning algorithms for classification, clustering, and recommendation engines, using a recipe-based approach. With emphasis on practical solutions, dedicated sections in the book will help you to apply supervised and unsupervised learning techniques to real-world problems. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with recipes that teach you advanced techniques including reinforcement learning, deep neural networks, and automated machine learning. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to apply machine learning techniques and leverage the full capabilities of the Python ecosystem through real-world examples.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Capturing and processing video from a webcam

Webcams are certainly not an innovative technological innovation; their appearance dates back to the beginning of the 1990s and from then on, they gained increasing popularity thanks to the spread of video chat programs, street cams, and broadband internet connections. Currently, webcams are objects for everyone and are almost always integrated into the display frames of monitors, netbooks, and notebooks. The most common uses of a webcam are to transmit video streaming and record.

In the first case, webcams are used in video chat programs, television broadcasting, and street cams—cameras that film a fixed point of a given location. In the second case, webcams are used for creating photos and videos that you can then upload to the internet, for example, to YouTube or social networking sites. The advantage of these types of webcams...