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Published inDec 2018
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Matthew Rever
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Matthew Rever

Matthew Rever received his PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His career revolves around image processing, computer vision, and machine learning for scientific research applications. He started programming in C++, a language he still uses today, over 20 years ago, and has also used Matlab and most heavily Python in the past few years, using OpenCV, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. He believes it is important to stay up to date on the latest tools to be as productive as possible. Dr. Rever is the author of Packt's Computer Vision Projects with Python 3 and Advanced Computer Vision Projects.
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Acquiring and processing MNIST digit data

As mentioned, we will be covering handwritten digit recognition with scikit-learn and TensorFlow. Here, we're going to learn how machine learning can be applied to computer vision projects, and we're going to learn a couple of different ways and models, using a couple of different Python modules. Let's get started.

You have probably heard about machine learning. Here, we will be particularly talking about supervised machine learning, where we have a bunch of examples that we want to accomplish. So, rather than explicitly telling the computer what we want, we give an example.

Let's take the case of the handwritten digits 0 through 9, which have labels that are created by humans indicating what those digits are supposed to be. So, rather than hand-coding features and explicitly telling the computer what the algorithm...

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Matthew Rever

Matthew Rever received his PhD. in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His career revolves around image processing, computer vision, and machine learning for scientific research applications. He started programming in C++, a language he still uses today, over 20 years ago, and has also used Matlab and most heavily Python in the past few years, using OpenCV, SciPy, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch. He believes it is important to stay up to date on the latest tools to be as productive as possible. Dr. Rever is the author of Packt's Computer Vision Projects with Python 3 and Advanced Computer Vision Projects.
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