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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

Generating deep fakes

We have learned about two different image-to-image tasks so far: semantic segmentation with UNet and image reconstruction with autoencoders. Deep fakery is an image-to-image task that has a very similar underlying theory.

Imagine a scenario where you want to create an application that takes a given image of a face and changes the facial expression in a way that you want. Deep fakes come in handy in this scenario. While we will not discuss the very latest in deep fakes in this book, techniques such as few-shot adversarial learning are developed to generate realistic images with the facial expression of interest. Knowledge of how deep fakes work and GANs (which you will learn about in the next chapters) will help you identify videos that are fake videos.

In the task of deep fakery, we would have a few hundred pictures of person A and a few hundred pictures of person B. The objective is to reconstruct person B's face with the facial expression of person A and vice...