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TensorFlow 2.0 Computer Vision Cookbook

By : Jesús Martínez
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TensorFlow 2.0 Computer Vision Cookbook

By: Jesús Martínez

Overview of this book

Computer vision is a scientific field that enables machines to identify and process digital images and videos. This book focuses on independent recipes to help you perform various computer vision tasks using TensorFlow. The book begins by taking you through the basics of deep learning for computer vision, along with covering TensorFlow 2.x’s key features, such as the Keras and tf.data.Dataset APIs. You’ll then learn about the ins and outs of common computer vision tasks, such as image classification, transfer learning, image enhancing and styling, and object detection. The book also covers autoencoders in domains such as inverse image search indexes and image denoising, while offering insights into various architectures used in the recipes, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), region-based CNNs (R-CNNs), VGGNet, and You Only Look Once (YOLO). Moving on, you’ll discover tips and tricks to solve any problems faced while building various computer vision applications. Finally, you’ll delve into more advanced topics such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), video processing, and AutoML, concluding with a section focused on techniques to help you boost the performance of your networks. By the end of this TensorFlow book, you’ll be able to confidently tackle a wide range of computer vision problems using TensorFlow 2.x.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 1: Getting Started with TensorFlow 2.x for Computer Vision

One of the greatest features of TensorFlow 2.x is that it finally incorporates Keras as its high-level API. Why is this so important? While it's true that Keras and TensorFlow have had very good compatibility for a while, they have remained separate libraries with different development cycles, which causes frequent compatibility issues. Now that the relationship between these two immensely popular tools is official, they'll grow in the same direction, following a single roadmap and making the interoperability between them completely seamless. In the end, Keras is TensorFlow and TensorFlow is Keras.

Perhaps the biggest advantage of this merger is that by using Keras' high-level features, we are not sacrificing performance by any means. Simply put, Keras code is production-ready!

Unless the requirements of a particular project demand otherwise, in the vast majority of the recipes in this book, we...