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Python: End-to-end Data Analysis

You're reading from   Python: End-to-end Data Analysis Leverage the power of Python to clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize your data

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Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788394697
Length 931 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luiz Felipe Martins Luiz Felipe Martins
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Chapter 11. Analyzing Images

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up OpenCV
  • Applying Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)
  • Detecting features with SURF
  • Quantizing colors
  • Denoising images
  • Extracting patches from an image
  • Detecting faces with Haar cascades
  • Searching for bright stars
  • Extracting metadata from images
  • Extracting texture features from images
  • Applying hierarchical clustering on images
  • Segmenting images with spectral clustering

Introduction

Image processing is a very large field of study. The techniques used for image processing can often (with small changes) be applied to video analysis as well. We can view image processing as a special type of signal processing. Signal processing is covered in Chapter 6, Signal Processing and Timeseries. However, images pose special challenges, such as high dimensionality (we can define each image pixel to be a feature) and spatial dependence (pixel location matters).

The human visual system is very advanced compared to...

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