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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)
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Section 1: Introduction to Computer Vision and Neural Networks
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Section 2: Advanced Concepts of Computer Vision with TensorFlow
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Section 3: Advanced Implementation of Computer Vision with TensorFlow
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Section 4: TensorFlow Implementation at the Edge and on the Cloud

An overview of SSD

SSD is a very fast object detector that is well suited to be deployed on mobile and edge devices for real-time prediction. In this chapter, we will learn about how to develop a model using SSD and in the next chapter, we will evaluate its performance when deployed on edge devices. But before getting into the detail of SSD, we will get a quick overview of other object detector models we have learned about in this book so far.

We learned in Chapter 5, Neural Network Architecture and Models, that Faster R-CNN consists of 21,500 region proposals (60 x 40 sliding windows with 9 anchor boxes), which are warped into 2K fixed layers. These 2K layers are fed to a fully connected layer and bounding box regressors to detect the bounding boxes in an image. The 9 anchor boxes result from 3 scales with a box area of 1282, 2562, 5122, and three aspect ratios—1:1, 1...