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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

Crowd counting

Imagine a scenario where you are given a picture of a crowd and are asked to estimate the number of people present in the image. A crowd counting model comes in handy in such a scenario. Before we go ahead and build a model to perform crowd counting, let's understand the data available and the model architecture first.

In order to train a model that predicts the number of people in an image, we will have to load the images first. The images should constitute the location of the center of the heads of all the people present in the image. A sample of the input image and the location of the center of the heads of the respective people in the image is as follows (source: ShanghaiTech dataset (https://github.com/desenzhou/ShanghaiTechDataset)):

In the preceding example, the image representing ground truth (the image on the right – the center of the heads of the people present in the image) is extremely sparse. There are exactly N white pixels, where N is the number...