Introducing the problem statement

In this chapter, we will be building an object detection application. We won't just be detecting objects, but we will be building the application that detects the objects in real time. This application can be used in self-driving cars, for segregation tasks in the agricultural field, or even in the robotics field. Let's understand our goal and what we are actually building.

We want to build an application in which we will provide the live webcam video stream or the live video stream as the input. Our application will use pre-trained Machine Learning models, which will help us predict the objects that appear in the video. This means that, if there is a person in the video, then our application can identify the person as a person. If the video contains a chair or a cup or a cell phone, then our application should identify all these objects in the correct manner. So, our main goal in this chapter is to build an application that can detect the objects in images...