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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)

Building a face detector using Haar cascades

As we discussed earlier, face detection is the process of determining the location of a face in an input image. In this recipe, we will use Haar cascades for face detection. This works by extracting many simple features from the image at multiple scales. These simple features are edge, line, and rectangle features that are very easy to compute. They are then trained by creating a cascade of simple classifiers.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will learn how to determine the location of a face in the video frames that are captured by our webcam. The adaptive boosting technique is used to make this process robust.

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