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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)

Recognizing faces using the HOG-based model

By face recognition, we mean the process that returns the position of the faces that are present in an image. In the Building a face detector using Haar cascades recipe, we already addressed this topic. In this recipe, we will use the face_recognition library to perform a series of operations on these faces.

The focal objective of face recognition consists of detecting the characteristics of a face and ignoring everything else that surrounds it. This is a feature on multiple commercial devices, and it allows you to establish when and how to apply focus in an image so that you can capture it. In the world of computer vision, it is customary to divide the family of face detection algorithms into two major categories. What distinguishes these two categories is their different uses of information, derived from a priori knowledge of the...