Computer Vision Projects with PyTorch: Design and Develop Production-Grade Models

Design and develop end-to-end, production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problems. This book discusses computer vision algorithms and their applications using PyTorch.

The book begins with the fundamentals of computer vision: convolutional neural nets, RESNET, YOLO, data augmentation, and other regularization techniques used in the industry. And then it gives you a quick overview of the PyTorch libraries used in the book. After that, it takes you through the implementation of image classification problems, object detection techniques, and transfer learning while training and running inference. The book covers image segmentation and an anomaly detection model. And it discusses the fundamentals of video processing for computer vision tasks putting images into videos. The book concludes with an explanation of the complete model building process for deep learning frameworks using optimized techniques with highlights on model AI explainability.

After reading this book, you will be able to build your own computer vision projects using transfer learning and PyTorch.

What You Will Learn

• Solve problems in computer vision with PyTorch.
• Implement transfer learning and perform image classification, object detection, image segmentation, and other computer vision applications
• Design and develop production-grade computer vision projects for real-world industry problems
• Interpret computer vision models and solve business problems

About the Author

Akshay R Kulkarni is an AI and machine learning (ML) evangelist and a thought leader. He has consulted for Fortune 500 and global enterprises to drive AI and data science-led strategic transformations. He is currently the manager of data science & AI at Publicis Sapien. He is a Google developer and author of the book Natural Language Processing Recipes (Apress). He is a regular speaker at major AI and data science conferences (including Strata, O’Reilly AI Conf, and GIDS). Akshay is a visiting faculty member for some of the top graduate institutes in India. In 2019, he was featured as one of the top 40 under 40 Data Scientists in India. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing, coding, and helping aspiring data scientists. He lives in Bangalore with his family.

Adarsha Shivananda is a senior data scientist on Indegene's product and technology team where he works on building machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for pharma products. He aims to build a pool of exceptional data scientists within and outside of the organization to solve problems through training programs, and always wants to stay ahead of the curve. Previously, he worked with Tredence Analytics and IQVIA. He has worked extensively in the pharma, healthcare, retail, and marketing domains. He lives in Bangalore and loves to read and teach data science.

Nitin Ranjan Sharma is a manager at Novartis, involved in leading a team to develop products using multi-modal techniques. He has been a consultant developing solutions for Fortune 500 companies, involved in solving complex business problems using machine learning and deep learning frameworks. His major focus area and core expertise are computer vision and solving some of the challenging business problems dealing with images and video data. Before Novartis, he was part of the data science team at Publicis Sapient, EY, and TekSystems Global Services. He is a regular speaker at data science communities and meet-ups and also an open-source contributor. He has also been training and mentoring data science enthusiasts.