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Mastering Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.x

By : Krishnendu Kar
Book Image

Mastering Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2.x

By: Krishnendu Kar

Overview of this book

Computer vision allows machines to gain human-level understanding to visualize, process, and analyze images and videos. This book focuses on using TensorFlow to help you learn advanced computer vision tasks such as image acquisition, processing, and analysis. You'll start with the key principles of computer vision and deep learning to build a solid foundation, before covering neural network architectures and understanding how they work rather than using them as a black box. Next, you'll explore architectures such as VGG, ResNet, Inception, R-CNN, SSD, YOLO, and MobileNet. As you advance, you'll learn to use visual search methods using transfer learning. You'll also cover advanced computer vision concepts such as semantic segmentation, image inpainting with GAN's, object tracking, video segmentation, and action recognition. Later, the book focuses on how machine learning and deep learning concepts can be used to perform tasks such as edge detection and face recognition. You'll then discover how to develop powerful neural network models on your PC and on various cloud platforms. Finally, you'll learn to perform model optimization methods to deploy models on edge devices for real-time inference. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of computer vision and be able to confidently develop models to automate tasks.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Computer Vision and Neural Networks
6
Section 2: Advanced Concepts of Computer Vision with TensorFlow
11
Section 3: Advanced Implementation of Computer Vision with TensorFlow
14
Section 4: TensorFlow Implementation at the Edge and on the Cloud

Section 3: Advanced Implementation of Computer Vision with TensorFlow

In this section, you will build on your understanding acquired from the previous sections and develop newer concepts and learn new techniques for action recognition and object detection. Throughout this section, you will learn different TensorFlow tools, such as TensorFlow Hub, TFRecord, and TensorBoard. You will also learn how to use TensorFlow to develop machine learning models for action recognition.

By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following:

  • Understand the theory and develop an intuition behind various action recognition methods such as OpenPose, Stacked HourGlass, and PoseNet (chapter 9)
  • Analyze the OpenPose and Stacked HourGlass code to develop an understanding of how to build a very complex neural network and connect its different blocks. Hopefully, you can use this learning to...