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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

Predicting facial expressions using a CNN

Facial expression recognition is a challenging problem because of the variations of faces, lighting, and expressions (mouth, the degree that the eyes are open, and so on) and also the need to develop an architecture and select parameters that can result in consistently high accuracy. This means that the challenge is to not only determine one facial expression correctly in one lighting condition for one person, but to correctly identify all facial expressions for all people with or without glasses, caps, and so on, and in all lighting conditions. The following CNN example categorizes emotion in seven different classifications: Angry, Disgusted, Afraid, Happy, Sad, Surprised, and Neutral. The steps involved in facial expression recognition are as follows:

  1. Import functions—Sequential, Conv2D, MaxPooling2D, AvgPooling2D, Dense, Activation...