Using a computer vision model with Hugging Face

Computer vision is a field of study and technology that focuses on enabling computers to extract meaningful information from digital images or videos, simulating human vision capabilities. It involves developing algorithms based on statistical methods or machine learning that allow machines to understand, analyze, and interpret visual data. A typical example of computer vision’s application is object detection: a system able to detect and recognize objects in an image. This is the kind of system we’ll build in this chapter.

To help us in this task, we’ll use a set of tools provided by Hugging Face. Hugging Face is a company whose goal is to allow developers to use the most recent and powerful AI models quickly and easily. For this, it has built two things:

• A set of open source Python tools built on top of machine learning libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. We’ll use some of them in this chapter...