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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
11
Section 3: Advanced Implementation of Computer Vision with TensorFlow
14
Section 4: TensorFlow Implementation at the Edge and on the Cloud

Applying Viola-Jones AdaBoost learning and the Haar cascade classifier for face recognition

In 2001, Paul Viola of Microsoft Research and Michael Jones of Mitsubishi Electric developed a revolutionary method of detecting faces in an image by developing a classifier called the Haar cascade classifier https://www.face-rec.org/algorithms/Boosting-Ensemble/16981346.pdf. The Haar cascade classifier is based on Haar features, which are the sum of the difference of pixel values in a rectangular region. The magnitude of the difference value is calibrated to indicate the characteristics of a given region in the face—for example, nose, eyes, and so on. The final detector has 38 cascade classifiers with 6,060 features consisting of about 4,916 face images and 9,500 non-face images. The total training time was several months, but the detection time was very fast.

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