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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)

Deep Learning Image Classification with TensorFlow

In this chapter, we will learn how to classify images using TensorFlow. First, we will use a pre-trained model, and then we'll proceed with training our own model using custom images.

Toward the end of the chapter, we will make use of the GPU to help us speed up our computations.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • A deep introduction to TensorFlow
  • Using a pre-trained model (Inception) for image classification
  • Retraining with our own images
  • Speeding up computation with the GPU