Applied Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Self/Driving Cars

Exploreself-drivingcartechnologyusingdeeplearningandartificialintelligencetechniquesandlibrariessuchasTensorFlow,Keras,andOpenCVKeyFeatures*Buildandtrainpowerfulneuralnetworkmodelstobuildanautonomouscar*Implementcomputervision,deeplearning,andAItechniquestocreateautomotivealgorithms*OvercomethechallengesfacedwhileautomatingdifferentaspectsofdrivingusingmodernPythonlibrariesandarchitecturesBookDescriptionThankstoanumberofrecentbreakthroughs,self-drivingcartechnologyisnowanemergingsubjectinthefieldofartificialintelligenceandhasshifteddatascientists'focustobuildingautonomouscarsthatwilltransformtheautomotiveindustry.Thisbookisacomprehensiveguidetousedeeplearningandcomputervisiontechniquestodevelopautonomouscars.Startingwiththebasicsofself-drivingcars(SDCs),thisbookwilltakeyouthroughthedeepneuralnetworktechniquesrequiredtogetupandrunningwithbuildingyourautonomousvehicle.Onceyouarecomfortablewiththebasics,you'lldelveintoadvancedcomputervisiontechniquesandlearnhowtousedeeplearningmethodstoperformavarietyofcomputervisiontaskssuchasfindinglanelines,improvingimageclassification,andsoon.Youwillexplorethebasicstructureandworkingofasemanticsegmentationmodelandgettogripswithdetectingcarsusingsemanticsegmentation.Thebookalsocoversadvancedapplicationssuchasbehavior-cloningandvehicledetectionusingOpenCV,transferlearning,anddeeplearningmethodologiestotrainSDCstomimichumandriving.Bytheendofthisbook,you'llhavelearnedhowtoimplementavarietyofneuralnetworkstodevelopyourownautonomousvehicleusingmodernPythonlibraries.Whatyouwilllearn*ImplementdeepneuralnetworkfromscratchusingtheKeraslibrary*Understandtheimportanceofdeeplearninginself-drivingcars*GettogripswithfeatureextractiontechniquesinimageprocessingusingtheOpenCVlibrary*Designasoftwarepipelinethatdetectslanelinesinvideos*Implementaconvolutionalneuralnetwork(CNN)imageclassifierfortrafficsignalsigns*Trainandtestneuralnetworksforbehavioral-cloningbydrivingacarinavirtualsimulator*Discovervariousstate-of-the-artsemanticsegmentationandobjectdetectionarchitecturesWhothisbookisforIfyouareadeeplearningengineer,AIresearcher,oranyonelookingtoimplementdeeplearningandcomputervisiontechniquestobuildself-drivingblueprintsolutions,thisbookisforyou.Anyonewhowantstolearnhowvariousautomotive-relatedalgorithmsarebuilt,willalsofindthisbookuseful.Pythonprogrammingexperience,alongwithabasicunderstandingofdeeplearning,isnecessarytogetthemostofthisbook.