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Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino
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Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

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By: Joseph Howse, Joe Minichino

Overview of this book

Computer vision is a rapidly evolving science in the field of artificial intelligence, encompassing diverse use cases and techniques. This book will not only help those who are getting started with computer vision but also experts in the domain. You'll be able to put theory into practice by building apps with OpenCV 5 and Python 3. You'll start by setting up OpenCV 5 with Python 3 on various platforms. Next, you'll learn how to perform basic operations such as reading, writing, manipulating, and displaying images, videos, and camera feeds. From taking you through image processing, video analysis, depth estimation, and segmentation, to helping you gain practice by building a GUI app, this book ensures you'll have opportunities for hands-on activities. You'll tackle two popular challenges: face detection and face recognition. You'll also learn about object classification and machine learning, which will enable you to create and use object detectors and even track moving objects in real time. Later, you'll develop your skills in augmented reality and real-world 3D navigation. Finally, you'll cover ANNs and DNNs, learning how to develop apps for recognizing handwritten digits and classifying a person's gender and age, and you'll deploy your solutions to the Cloud. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to execute real-world computer vision projects.
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Learning OpenCV 5 Computer Vision with Python, Fourth Edition: Tackle tools, techniques, and algorithms for computer vision and machine learning
Appendix A: Bending Color Space with the Curves Filter

Detecting and classifying faces with third-party DNNs

For this demonstration, we are going to use one DNN to detect faces and two other DNNs to classify the age and gender of each detected face. Specifically, we will use pre-trained Caffe models that are stored in the following files in the chapter10/faces_data folder of this book's GitHub repository.

Here is an inventory of the files in this folder, and of the files' origins:

detection/res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000.caffemodel: This is the DNN for face detection. The OpenCV team has provided this file at https://github.com/opencv/opencv_3rdparty/blob/dnn_samples_face_detector_20170830/res10_300x300_ssd_iter_140000.caffemodel. This Caffe model was trained with the SSD framework (https://github.com/weiliu89/caffe/tree/ssd/). Thus, its topology is similar to the MobileNet-SSD model that we used in the previous section's example.

detection/deploy.prototxt: This is the text file that describes the parameters...