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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

Overview of AlexNet

AlexNet was introduced in 2012 by Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, and Geoffrey E. Hinton in a paper titled ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks. The original paper can be found at http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2012/imgnet.pdf.

It was the first successful introduction of an optimized CNN model to solve computer vision problems regarding the classification of a large number of images (over 15 million) from many different categories (over 22,000). Before AlexNet, computer vision problems were mainly solved by traditional machine learning methods, which made incremental improvements by collecting larger datasets and improving the model and techniques to minimize overfitting.

CNN models classify error rates in terms of a top-five error rate, which is the percentage of instances where the true class of a given image is not amongst...