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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
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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

Image processing with a Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a single-board tiny computer without a GPU that can be connected to an external camera and other sensor modules and can be programmed in Python to perform computer vision work such as object detection. Raspberry Pis have built-in Wi-Fi, so they can be connected to the internet seamlessly to receive and transfer data. Because of its tiny shape and powerful computing, the Raspberry Pi is a perfect example of an edge device for IoT and computer vision work. Detailed information on Raspberry Pi can be found at https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/. The following photo shows the complete setup for a Raspberry Pi:

The detailed hardware setup for the Raspberry Pi will be described in the following subsections.

Note that this image will be listed in the following setup section several times.
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