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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

Real-time prediction using Darknet

Prediction involving Darknet can all be done using the command line in the terminal. For more details, refer to https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/.

Up to now, we have made inferences using Darknet on an image. In the following steps, we will learn how to make inferences using Darknet on a video file:

  1. Go to the darknet directory (already installed in the previous steps) by typing cd darknet in the terminal.
  2. Make sure OpenCV is installed. Even though you have OpenCV installed, it may still create an error flag. Use the sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev command to install OpenCV in the darknet directory.
  3. In the darknet directory, there is a file called Makefile. Open that file, set OpenCV = 1, and save.
  4. Download the weights from the terminal by going to https://pjreddie.com/media/files/yolov3.weights.
  5. At this point, you have to recompile since...