January 2019
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 29m
English
This section presents different computational techniques used in implementing the automated recognition of objects in digital images. Let's start by giving a definition of object recognition. In a nutshell, it is the task of finding and labeling parts of a 2D image of a scene that correspond to objects inside that scene. The following screenshot shows an example of object recognition performed manually by a human using a pencil:

The image has been marked and labeled to show fruits recognizable as a banana and a pumpkin. This is exactly the same as what happens ...