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Joseph Howse
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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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Planning the Interactive Recognizer app


Let's begin this project with the middle layer, the Interactive Recognizer app, in order to see how all layers connect. Like Luxocator (the previous chapter's project), Interactive Recognizer is a GUI app built with wxPython. Refer to the following screenshot, which features one of my colleagues, Chief Science Officer Sanibel "San" Delphinium Andromeda, Oracle of the Numm:

The app uses a face detection model, which is loaded from a disk, and it maintains a face recognition model that is saved or loaded to/from a disk. The user might specify the identity of any detected face and this input is added to the face recognition model. A detection result is shown by outlining the face in the video feed, while a recognition result is shown by displaying the name of the face in the text below. To elaborate, we can say that the app has the following flow of execution:

  1. The app loads a face detection model from a file. The role of the detection model is to distinguish...

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Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media Corporation, which exists to support his books and to provide mentoring and consulting services, with a specialty in computer vision. On average, in 2015-2022, Joseph has written 1.4 new books or new editions per year for Packt. He also writes fiction, including an upcoming novel about the lives of a group of young people in the last days of the Soviet Union.
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