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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

Analyzing images and search mechanisms in various cloud platforms

In this section, we will discuss the visual search task using three different cloud platforms—GCP, AWS, and Azure. We have already covered a visual search in Chapter 6, Visual Search Using Transfer Learning, where we learned how to compare an image vector to a large number of images in your PC directory to find the closest match based on the Euclidean distance. In this section, you will learn how to upload an image to the cloud using the REST API from your PC and the cloud search engine will search for the closest image and display it. So, all the heavy lifting will be done by the cloud engine.

Note that in this section, the basic idea of visual search is introduced. The content can go much deeper, where you can get the cloud API from GCP, AWS, or Azure and insert it in your application program written in...