Hands-On Image Processing with Python

Imageprocessingplaysanimportantroleinourdailyliveswithvariousapplicationssuchasinsocialmedia(facedetection),medicalimaging(X-ray,CT-scan),security(fingerprintrecognition)torobotics&space.Thisbookwilltouchthecoreofimageprocessing,fromconceptstocodeusingPython.Thebookwillstartfromtheclassicalimageprocessingtechniquesandexploretheevolutionofimageprocessingalgorithmsuptotherecentadvancesinimageprocessingorcomputervisionwithdeeplearning.WewilllearnhowtouseimageprocessinglibrariessuchasPIL,scikit-mage,andscipyndimageinPython.ThisbookwillenableustowritecodesnippetsinPython3andquicklyimplementcompleximageprocessingalgorithmssuchasimageenhancement,filtering,segmentation,objectdetection,andclassification.Wewillbeabletousemachinelearningmodelsusingthescikit-learnlibraryandlaterexploredeepCNN,suchasVGG-19withKeras,andwewillalsouseanend-to-enddeeplearningmodelcalledYOLOforobjectdetection.Wewillalsocoverafewadvancedproblems,suchasimageinpainting,gradientblending,variationaldenoising,seamcarving,quilting,andmorphing.Bytheendofthisbook,wewillhavelearnedtoimplementvariousalgorithmsforefficientimageprocessing.