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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

Application of TensorFlow Lite

TensorFlow Lite is the TensorFlow deep learning framework for inference on edge devices. Similar to OpenVINO, TensorFlow Lite has built-in pre-trained deep learning modules. Alternatively, an existing model can be converted into TensorFlow Lite format for on-device inference. Currently, TensorFlow Lite provides inference support for PCs with a built-in or external camera, Android devices, iOS devices, Raspberry Pis, and tiny microcontrollers. Visit https://www.tensorflow.org/lite for details on TensorFlow Lite.

The TensorFlow Lite converter takes a TensorFlow model and generates a FlatBuffer tflite file. A FlatBuffer file is an efficient cross-platform library that can be used to access binary serialized data without the need for parsing. Serialized data is usually a text string. Binary serialized data is binary data written in string format. For...