Comprehensive guide to OpenCV for computer vision applications, covering image processing, feature detection, object tracking, and real-time video analysis with practical examples.
Comprehensive exploration of local image descriptors including classical methods like SIFT and ORB, and modern learned approaches for keypoint detection and description.
Comprehensive guide to global image descriptors, exploring traditional methods like HOG and LBP alongside modern deep learning approaches for image representation and retrieval.
Understanding ConvNeXt - the systematic modernization of convolutional networks that proved CNNs could compete with Vision Transformers by adopting their best design principles.
Understanding image augmentation - why it's crucial for computer vision success, what techniques work best, and how to apply them effectively to build robust models with limited data.
Understanding contrastive learning - the breakthrough approach that teaches AI to recognize patterns by comparing what's similar and what's different, without needing labeled data.
Understanding Stable Diffusion - the breakthrough AI system that can create stunning images from text by learning to reverse the process of adding noise to pictures.
How Vision Transformers challenged CNNs by treating images like sentences - breaking them into patches and using attention to understand spatial relationships.
Understanding the different computer vision tasks - object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, and panoptic segmentation - their applications, and when to use each approach.
Understanding CLIP - the breakthrough model that bridges vision and language, enabling AI to understand images through natural language without task-specific training.
Understanding ArcFace loss - the breakthrough technique that revolutionized face recognition by teaching networks to create better feature boundaries through angular margins.