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James Loy
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James Loy has more than five years, expert experience in data science in the finance and healthcare industries. He has worked with the largest bank in Singapore to drive innovation and improve customer loyalty through predictive analytics. He has also experience in the healthcare sector, where he applied data analytics to improve decision-making in hospitals. He has a master's degree in computer science from Georgia Tech, with a specialization in machine learning. His research interest includes deep learning and applied machine learning, as well as developing computer-vision-based AI agents for automation in industry. He writes on Towards Data Science, a popular machine learning website with more than 3 million views per month.
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Computer vision and object recognition

Computer vision is an engineering field where the objective is to create programs that can extract meaning from images. According to an urban legend, computer vision first started in the 1960s when Professor Marvin Minsky from MIT assigned a summer project to a group of undergraduates, with the requirement that they should attach a camera to a computer and to have the computer describe everything that it sees. The project was expected to be completed in just one summer. Needless to say, it wasn't completed within that summer as computer vision is an extremely complex field that scientists are continuously working on even today.

Early progression in computer vision was modest. In the 1960s, researchers started by creating algorithms to detect shapes, lines, and edges in photographs. The following decades saw the evolution of computer...

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Published in: Feb 2019Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789138900

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James Loy

James Loy has more than five years, expert experience in data science in the finance and healthcare industries. He has worked with the largest bank in Singapore to drive innovation and improve customer loyalty through predictive analytics. He has also experience in the healthcare sector, where he applied data analytics to improve decision-making in hospitals. He has a master's degree in computer science from Georgia Tech, with a specialization in machine learning. His research interest includes deep learning and applied machine learning, as well as developing computer-vision-based AI agents for automation in industry. He writes on Towards Data Science, a popular machine learning website with more than 3 million views per month.
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