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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to send image data to the cloud platform for analysis. In previous chapters, we learned how to perform training on a local PC, but in this chapter, you have learned how to perform the same task using a cloud platform and also, how to trigger training in multiple instances, using Google Cloud Shell for distributed training.

This chapter has included many examples and links and you will gain more knowledge by reviewing those links and performing the exercises. We then learned how to send images to a cloud platform for instance analysis. The image content analysis was extended to perform a visual search in the cloud platform. We also learned how to use all three cloud platforms—GCP, AWS, and Azure. Remember to make sure to shut down your project when you have completed your task, even though you are not training, to stop incurring...