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Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV and Python 3

By : Matthew Rever
Book Image

Computer Vision Projects with OpenCV and Python 3

By: Matthew Rever

Overview of this book

Python is the ideal programming language for rapidly prototyping and developing production-grade codes for image processing and Computer Vision with its robust syntax and wealth of powerful libraries. This book will help you design and develop production-grade Computer Vision projects tackling real-world problems. With the help of this book, you will learn how to set up Anaconda and Python for the major OSes with cutting-edge third-party libraries for Computer Vision. You'll learn state-of-the-art techniques for classifying images, finding and identifying human postures, and detecting faces within videos. You will use powerful machine learning tools such as OpenCV, Dlib, and TensorFlow to build exciting projects such as classifying handwritten digits, detecting facial features,and much more. The book also covers some advanced projects, such as reading text from license plates from real-world images using Google’s Tesseract software, and tracking human body poses using DeeperCut within TensorFlow. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise required to build your own Computer Vision projects using Python and its associated libraries.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Introduction to image captioning

Image captioning is a process in which textual description is generated based on an image. To better understand image captioning, we need to first differentiate it from image classification.

Difference between image classification and image captioning

Image classification is a relatively simple process that only tells us what is in an image. For example, if there is a boy on a bike, image classification will not give us a description; it will just provide the result as boy or bike. Image classification can tell us whether there is a woman or a dog in the image, or an action, such as snowboarding. This is not a desirable result as there is no description of what exactly is going on in the image...