How does the computer learn to understand what it sees? Deep Learning for Vision Systems answers that by applying deep learning to computer vision. Using only high school algebra, this book illuminates the concepts behind visual intuition. You'll understand how to use deep learning architectures to build vision system applications for image generation and facial recognition. Summary Computer vision is central to many leading-edge innovations, including self-driving cars, drones, augmented reality, facial recognition, and much, much more. Amazing new computer vision applications are developed every day, thanks to rapid advances in AI and deep learning (DL). Deep Learning for Vision Systems teaches you the concepts and tools for building intelligent, scalable computer vision systems that can identify and react to objects in images, videos, and real life. With author Mohamed Elgendy's expert instruction and illustration of real-world projects, you’ll finally grok state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, so you can build, contribute to, and lead in the exciting realm of computer vision! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology How much has computer vision advanced? One ride in a Tesla is the only answer you’ll need. Deep learning techniques have led to exciting breakthroughs in facial recognition, interactive simulations, and medical imaging, but nothing beats seeing a car respond to real-world stimuli while speeding down the highway. About the book How does the computer learn to understand what it sees? Deep Learning for Vision Systems answers that by applying deep learning to computer vision. Using only high school algebra, this book illuminates the concepts behind visual intuition. You'll understand how to use deep learning architectures to build vision system applications for image generation and facial recognition. What's inside Image classification and object detection Advanced deep learning architectures Transfer learning and generative adversarial networks DeepDream and neural style transfer Visual embeddings and image search About the reader For intermediate Python programmers. About the author Mohamed Elgendy is the VP of Engineering at Rakuten. A seasoned AI expert, he has previously built and managed AI products at Amazon and Twilio. Table of Contents PART 1 - DEEP LEARNING FOUNDATION 1 Welcome to computer vision 2 Deep learning and neural networks 3 Convolutional neural networks 4 Structuring DL projects and hyperparameter tuning PART 2 - IMAGE CLASSIFICATION AND DETECTION 5 Advanced CNN architectures 6 Transfer learning 7 Object detection with R-CNN, SSD, and YOLO PART 3 - GENERATIVE MODELS AND VISUAL EMBEDDINGS 8 Generative adversarial networks (GANs) 9 DeepDream and neural style transfer 10 Visual embeddings

This book is focused on the recent advances in computer vision methodologies and technical solutions using conventional and intelligent paradigms. The Contributions include: · Morphological Image Analysis for Computer Vision Applications. · Methods for Detecting of Structural Changes in Computer Vision Systems. · Hierarchical Adaptive KL-based Transform: Algorithms and Applications. · Automatic Estimation for Parameters of Image Projective Transforms Based on Object-invariant Cores. · A Way of Energy Analysis for Image and Video Sequence Processing. · Optimal Measurement of Visual Motion Across Spatial and Temporal Scales. · Scene Analysis Using Morphological Mathematics and Fuzzy Logic. · Digital Video Stabilization in Static and Dynamic Scenes. · Implementation of Hadamard Matrices for Image Processing. · A Generalized Criterion of Efficiency for Telecommunication Systems. The book is directed to PhD students, professors, researchers and software developers working in the areas of digital video processing and computer vision technologies.

This cutting-edge volume focuses on how artificial intelligence can be used to give computers the ability to imitate human sight. With contributions from researchers in diverse countries, including Thailand, Spain, Japan, Turkey, Australia, and India, the book explains the essential modules that are necessary for comprehending artificial intelligence experiences to provide machines with the power of vision. The volume also presents innovative research developments, applications, and current trends in the field. The chapters cover such topics as visual quality improvement, Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, hypertensive retinopathy detection through retinal fundus, big image data processing, N-grams for image classification, medical brain images, chatbot applications, credit score improvisation, vision-based vehicle lane detection, damaged vehicle parts recognition, partial image encryption of medical images, and image synthesis. The chapter authors show different approaches to computer vision, image processing, and frameworks for machine learning to build automated and stable applications. Deep learning is included for making immersive application-based systems, pattern recognition, and biometric systems. The book also considers efficiency and comparison at various levels of using algorithms for real-time applications, processes, and analysis.

Based on the highly successful 3-volume reference Handbook of Computer Vision and Applications, this concise edition covers in a single volume the entire spectrum of computer vision ranging form the imaging process to high-end algorithms and applications. This book consists of three parts, including an application gallery. - Bridges the gap between theory and practical applications - Covers modern concepts in computer vision as well as modern developments in imaging sensor technology - Presents a unique interdisciplinary approach covering different areas of modern science

Computer vision has widespread and growing application including robotics, autonomous vehicles, medical imaging and diagnosis, surveillance, video analysis, and even tracking for sports analysis. This book equips the reader with crucial mathematical and algorithmic tools to develop a thorough understanding of the underlying components of any complete computer vision system and to design such systems. These components include identifying local features such as corners or edges in the presence of noise, edge preserving smoothing, connected component labeling, stereopsis, thresholding, clustering, segmentation, and describing and matching both shapes and scenes. The extensive examples include photographs of faces, cartoons, animal footprints, and angiograms, and each chapter concludes with homework exercises and suggested projects. Intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the text will also be of use to practitioners and researchers in a range of applications.

This practical book shows you how to employ machine learning models to extract information from images. ML engineers and data scientists will learn how to solve a variety of image problems including classification, object detection, autoencoders, image generation, counting, and captioning with proven ML techniques. This book provides a great introduction to end-to-end deep learning: dataset creation, data preprocessing, model design, model training, evaluation, deployment, and interpretability. Google engineers Valliappa Lakshmanan, Martin Görner, and Ryan Gillard show you how to develop accurate and explainable computer vision ML models and put them into large-scale production using robust ML architecture in a flexible and maintainable way. You'll learn how to design, train, evaluate, and predict with models written in TensorFlow or Keras. You'll learn how to: Design ML architecture for computer vision tasks Select a model (such as ResNet, SqueezeNet, or EfficientNet) appropriate to your task Create an end-to-end ML pipeline to train, evaluate, deploy, and explain your model Preprocess images for data augmentation and to support learnability Incorporate explainability and responsible AI best practices Deploy image models as web services or on edge devices Monitor and manage ML models

Consumers are now demanding and expecting more from technology. Building intelligence into our devices is a promising way to satisfy this demand by providing more personalized experiences. In Building Intelligent Systems the authors investigate how computer vision, machine learning, and data mining can be used together to build smarter devices and systems. Additionally, they explore some of the practical considerations of using artificial intelligence in the real world, tackling issues that are often overlooked in academic circles, such as performance optimization, benchmarking, robustness, and privacy.