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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how image filtering modifies the input image through a convolution operation to produce an output that detects a portion of a feature called an edge. This is fundamental to computer vision. As you will learn in the following chapters, subsequent application of image filtering will transform the edges to a higher-level pattern, such as features.

We also learned how to calculate an image histogram, perform image matching using SIFT, and use contour and the HOG detector to draw a bounding box. We learned how to use OpenCV's bounding box color and size method to segregate one class from another. The chapter concluded with an introduction to TensorFlow, which will provide a foundation for the remaining chapters of this book.

In the next chapter, we will learn about a different type of computer vision technique, called pattern recognition, and...