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Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy
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Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch

By: V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy

Overview of this book

Deep learning is the driving force behind many recent advances in various computer vision (CV) applications. This book takes a hands-on approach to help you to solve over 50 CV problems using PyTorch1.x on real-world datasets. You’ll start by building a neural network (NN) from scratch using NumPy and PyTorch and discover best practices for tweaking its hyperparameters. You’ll then perform image classification using convolutional neural networks and transfer learning and understand how they work. As you progress, you’ll implement multiple use cases of 2D and 3D multi-object detection, segmentation, human-pose-estimation by learning about the R-CNN family, SSD, YOLO, U-Net architectures, and the Detectron2 platform. The book will also guide you in performing facial expression swapping, generating new faces, and manipulating facial expressions as you explore autoencoders and modern generative adversarial networks. You’ll learn how to combine CV with NLP techniques, such as LSTM and transformer, and RL techniques, such as Deep Q-learning, to implement OCR, image captioning, object detection, and a self-driving car agent. Finally, you'll move your NN model to production on the AWS Cloud. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to leverage modern NN architectures to solve over 50 real-world CV problems confidently.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1 - Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision
5
Section 2 - Object Classification and Detection
13
Section 3 - Image Manipulation
17
Section 4 - Combining Computer Vision with Other Techniques

Human pose detection

In the previous section, we learned about detecting multiple objects and segmenting them. In this section, we will learn about detecting multiple people in an image, as well as detecting the keypoints of various body parts of the people present in the image using Detectron2. Detecting keypoints comes in handy in multiple use cases. such as in sports analytics and security.

For this exercise, we will be leveraging the pre-trained keypoint model that is available in the configuration file:

The following code is available as Human_pose_detection.ipynb in the Chapter10 folder of the book's GitHub repository - https://tinyurl.com/mcvp-packt The code contains URLs to download data from. We strongly recommend you to execute the notebook in GitHub to reproduce results while you understand the steps to perform and explanation of various code components from text.
  1. Install all the requirements as shown in the previous section:
!pip install detectron2 -f \
https://dl...