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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
6
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

Working with a visual search input pipeline using tf.data

The TensorFlow tf.data API is a highly efficient data pipeline that processes data an order of magnitude faster than the Keras data input process. It aggregates data in a distributed filesystem and batch processes it. For further details, refer to: https://www.tensorflow.org/guide/data.

The following screenshot shows an image upload time comparison of tf.data versus the Keras image input process:

Note that 1,000 images take about 1.58 seconds, which is about 90 times faster than the Keras image input process.

Here is some common features for tf.data:

  • For this API to work, you need to import the pathlib library.
  • tf.data.Dataset.list_files is used to create a dataset of all files matching a pattern.
  • tf.strings.splot splits the file path based on a delimiter.
  • tf.image.decode_jpeg decodes a JPEG image into a tensor (note...