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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

Overview of R-CNN

Region-specific CNN (R-CNN) was introduced by Ross Girshick, Jeff Donahue, Trevor Darrell, and Jitendra Malik in a paper titled Rich feature hierarchies for accurate object detection and semantic segmentation. It is a simple and scalable object detection algorithm that improves the mean average precision by more than 30% over the previous best result in VOC2012. The paper can be read at https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2524

VOC stands for Visual Object Classes (http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC) and PASCAL stands for Pattern Analysis Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning. The PASCAL VOC ran challenges from 2005 to 2012 on object-class recognition. The PASCAL VOC annotation is widely used in object detection and it uses .xml format.

The entire object detection model is broken down into image segmentation, selective search-based region proposal, feature...