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Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Yeshwanth Reddy
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Book Image

Modern Computer Vision with PyTorch

5 (2)
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)
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Section 1 - Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Computer Vision
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Section 2 - Object Classification and Detection
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Section 3 - Image Manipulation
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Section 4 - Combining Computer Vision with Other Techniques

Introducing GANs

To understand GANs, we need to understand two terms: generator and discriminator. First, we should have a reasonable sample of images of an object. A generative network (generator) learns representation from a sample of images and then generates images similar to the sample of images. A discriminator network (discriminator) is one that looks at the image generated (by the generator network) and the original sample of images and classifies images as original ones or generated (fake) ones.

The generator network generates images in such a way that the discriminator classifies the images as real ones. The discriminator network classifies the generated images as fake and the images in the original sample as real.

Essentially, the adversarial term in GAN represents the opposite nature of the two networks—a generator network, which generates images to fool the discriminator network, and a discriminator network that classifies each image by saying whether the image is...