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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 eye and nose detectors

In the previous recipe, Building a face detector using Haar cascades, we used the Haar cascades method to detect the location of a face in video frames that were captured by a webcam. This method can be extended to detect all types of object. This is what we will be covering here.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will see how we can use the Haar cascades method to detect the eyes and nose of a person in an input video.

How to do it...

Let's see how we can build eye and nose detectors:

  1. Create a new Python file and import the following...