Tutorials

Before we dive into this post, let’s take a second and talk about Oscar, a dedicated PyImageSearch reader. He is just getting started in computer vision — and he’s taken the best possible route to mastering the subject: creating your…

Last week I wrote a post detailing my experience with CUDAMat, Deep Belief Networks, and Python using my MacBook Pro. The post is fairly long and full of screenshots to document my experience. But the gist of it is this:…

Originally I had intended on doing a followup post on my Getting Started with Deep Learning Guide, but due to some unfortunate personal events, I wasn’t able to complete the blog post. But don’t worry…I still have a really great…

Update – January 27, 2015: Based on the feedback from commenters, I have updated the source code in the download to include the original MNIST dataset! No external downloads required! Update – March 2015, 2015: The nolearn package has now…

Last Updated on July 1, 2021 Would you have guessed that I’m a stamp collector? Just kidding. I’m not. But let’s play a little game of pretend. Let’s pretend that we have a huge dataset of stamp images. And we…

Tragic. Heartbreaking. Unbearable. These are the three words that I would use to describe my past week. About a week ago, a close childhood friend of mine passed away in a tragic car accident. I went to elementary school and…

Building a document scanner with OpenCV can be accomplished in just three simple steps: Step 1: Detect edges. Step 2: Use the edges in the image to find the contour (outline) representing the piece of paper being scanned. Step 3:…

Last updated on July 4, 2021. 4:18am. Alarm blaring. Still dark outside. The bed is warm. And the floor will feel so cold on my bare feet. But I got out of bed. I braved the morning, and I took…

So last night I went out for a few drinks with my colleague, James, a fellow computer vision researcher who I have known for years. You see, James likes to party. He’s a “go hard” type of guy. He wanted…