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Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2

Leverage deep learning to create powerful image processing apps with TensorFlow 2.0 and Keras

By: Benjamin Planche,Eliot Andres

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Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2

Leverage deep learning to create powerful image processing apps with TensorFlow 2.0 and Keras

By: Benjamin Planche,Eliot Andres

A practical guide to building high performance systems for object detection, segmentation, video processing, smartphone applications, and more Key FeaturesDiscover how to build, train, and serve your own deep neural networks with TensorFlow 2 and KerasApply modern solutions to a wide range of applications such as object detection and video analysisLearn how to run your models on mobile devices and web pages and improve their performanceBook Description Computer vision solutions are becoming increasingly common, making their way into fields such as health, automobile, social media, and robotics. This book will help you explore TensorFlow 2, the brand new version of Google's open source framework for machine learning. You will understand how to benefit from using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for visual tasks. Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2 starts with the fundamentals of computer vision and deep learning, teaching you how to build a neural network from scratch. You will discover the features that have made TensorFlow the most widely used AI library, along with its intuitive Keras interface. You'll then move on to building, training, and deploying CNNs efficiently. Complete with concrete code examples, the book demonstrates how to classify images with modern solutions, such as Inception and ResNet, and extract specific content using You Only Look Once (YOLO), Mask R-CNN, and U-Net. You will also build generative adversarial networks (GANs) and variational autoencoders (VAEs) to create and edit images, and long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) to analyze videos. In the process, you will acquire advanced insights into transfer learning, data augmentation, domain adaptation, and mobile and web deployment, among other key concepts. By the end of the book, you will have both the theoretical understanding and practical skills to solve advanced computer vision problems with TensorFlow 2.0. What you will learnCreate your own neural networks from scratchClassify images with modern architectures including Inception and ResNetDetect and segment objects in images with YOLO, Mask R-CNN, and U-NetTackle problems faced when developing self-driving cars and facial emotion recognition systemsBoost your application's performance with transfer learning, GANs, and domain adaptationUse recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for video analysisOptimize and deploy your networks on mobile devices and in the browserWho this book is for If you're new to deep learning and have some background in Python programming and image processing, like reading/writing image files and editing pixels, this book is for you. Even if you're an expert curious about the new TensorFlow 2 features, you'll find this book useful. While some theoretical concepts require knowledge of algebra and calculus, the book covers concrete examples focused on practical applications such as visual recognition for self-driving cars and smartphone apps.

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1788839269

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Origins of Cuban Music and Dance

Changüí

By: Benjamin Lapidus

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Origins of Cuban Music and Dance

Changüí

By: Benjamin Lapidus

Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí is the first in-depth study of changüí, a style of music and dance in Guantánamo, Cuba. Changüí is analogous to blues in the United States and is a crucible of Cuban Creole culture. Benjamin Lapidus describes changüí and its relationship to the roots of son, Cuba's national genre and the style of music that contributed to the development of salsa, in Eastern Cuba. He also highlights the connections between Afro-Haitian music and Cuban popular music through changüí, connections with the Caribbean that have been largely overlooked in the past. After an initial historical discussion about the region of Guantánamo and the inter-connectedness of its various musical styles with a focus on changüí, Lapidus discusses the technical aspects of the genre as practiced within the region and beyond. He considers the socio-historical importance of its lyrics, presenting numerous musical transcriptions that explain how the music is structured, as well as providing background stories to songs. In a chapter unique to this book and a first in Cuban musicology and ethnography, Lapidus describes years of festivals and musical competitions to show how local musical identity takes shape, particularly when encountering national narratives of music history. The volume concludes with a comparison between changüí and son, as well as a bibliography, discography, and videography.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461670292

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

By: Benjamin B. Olshin

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The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

By: Benjamin B. Olshin

What’s the truth behind the travels of Marco Polo? “A fascinating tale about maps, history and exploration.”—Times Literary Supplement (UK) In the thirteenth century, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo traveled from Venice to the far reaches of Asia, a journey he chronicled in a narrative titled Il Milione, later known as The Travels of Marco Polo. While Polo’s writings would go on to inspire the likes of Christopher Columbus, scholars have long debated their veracity. Some have argued that Polo never even reached China—while others believe that he came as far as the Americas. Now, there’s new evidence for this historical puzzle: a very curious collection of fourteen little-known maps and related documents said to have belonged to the family of Marco Polo himself. Here, historian of cartography Benjamin B. Olshin offers the first credible book-length analysis of these artifacts, charting their course from obscure origins in the private collection of Italian-American immigrant Marcian Rossi in the 1930s; to investigations of their authenticity by the Library of Congress, J. Edgar Hoover, and the FBI; to the work of the late cartographic scholar Leo Bagrow; to Olshin’s own efforts to track down and study the Rossi maps, all but one of which are in the possession of Rossi’s great-grandson. Are the maps forgeries, facsimiles, or modernized copies? Did Marco Polo’s daughters—whose names appear on several of the artifacts—preserve in them geographic information about Asia first recorded by their father? Or did they inherit maps created by him? Did Marco Polo entrust the maps to an admiral with links to Rossi’s family line? Or, if the maps have no connection to Marco Polo, who made them, when, and why? Regardless of the maps’ provenance, this tale takes us on a fascinating journey, offering insights into Italian history, the age of exploration, and the wonders of cartography. “Olshin’s book tugs powerfully at the imagination of anybody interested in the Polo story, medieval history, old maps, geographical ideas, European voyages of discovery, and early Chinese legends.”—The Wall Street Journal

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University of Chicago Press

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022614996X

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9780226149967

Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin (Illustrated)

By: Benjamin Franklin

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Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin (Illustrated)

By: Benjamin Franklin

One of the foremost of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was a printer, author, inventor, scientist and diplomat. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and was one of its chief signers. Franklin made important contributions to science, especially in the understanding of electricity, and is remembered for the wit, wisdom and the supreme elegance of his prose technique. This eBook presents Franklin’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Franklin’s life and works * All the major works, with the original hyperlinked footnotes * Texts based on the Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme 1806 edition of Franklin’s works * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare letters and treatises * Includes Franklin’s seminal autobiography * Special criticism section, with 14 essays evaluating Franklin’s contribution to literature, science, politics and philosophy * Features six biographies – discover Franklin’s incredible life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Works Letters and Papers on Electricity Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects Papers on Subjects of General Politics Papers on American Subjects before the Revolutionary Troubles Papers on American Subjects during the Revolutionary Troubles Papers, Descriptive of America, or Relating to that Country, Written Subsequent to the Revolution Papers on Moral Subjects and the Economy of Life The Autobiography The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1793) The Criticism Anecdotes of Doctor Franklin (1818) by Thomas Jefferson The Late Benjamin Franklin (1870) by Mark Twain Benjamin Franklin (1884) by Osgood E. Fuller Benjamin Franklin (1884) by Carl Schurz Benjamin Franklin (1885) by William Garnett Benjamin Franklin (1888) by Sarah Knowles Bolton Benjamin Franklin (1893) by Philip Gengembre Hubert Benjamin Franklin (1900) by Paul Elmer More Benjamin Franklin and Aid from France (1901) by Wilbur Fisk Gordy Franklin (1906) by Charles William Eliot Benjamin Franklin (1916) by Hamilton W. Mabie Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed (1917) by Wiliam Cabell Bruce Science and the Struggle for Liberty: Benjamin Franklin (1917) by Walter Libby Benjamin Franklin (1923) by D. H. Lawrence The Biographies The Life of Benjamin Franklin (1829) by Mason Locke Weems Benjamin Franklin (1839) by L. Carroll Judson Benjamin Franklin (1876) by John S. C. Abbott Franklin: A Sketch (1879) by John Bigelow The True Benjamin Franklin (1898) by Sydney George Fisher Benjamin Franklin (1911) by Richard Webster Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1801701024

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters

1835-1837, Volume II

By: Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters

1835-1837, Volume II

By: Benjamin Disraeli

The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions. In 1835 the road to parliament was not yet clear, for he continued to be haunted by troubles from his past. He was beset by charges of opportunism in his Taunton campaign of 1835, and the longest letters here are those to Edwards Beadon written in justification of past conduct; Disraeli had still to learn the truth of his later dictum, 'never explain.' Also, debts contracted many years before continued to plague him, as they would in years to come. He was tempted by a variety of money-making schemes and the later correspondence makes clear just how close he came to permanent ruin at the hands of his creditors in the spring of 1837. Had the fate of debtors' prison materialized it is doubtful that he would ever have been eligible, in law or in reputation, for a parliamentary career. Disraeli's eventual election for Maidstone in the summer of 1837 marked the emergence of his formal public role. Because he set out early and was a long time in attaining his goals, one is tempted to laud his patience. But the record here suggests that it was instead a matter of energy and endurance. This volume of the Letters brings Disraeli to the threshold of the Victorian era and the beginning of his career as a politician. In late 1837 he failed in his maiden speech, but all major successes lay ahead.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442639547

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Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

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Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

By: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

Eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years, each looking at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. Some critics view the postwar avant-garde as the empty recycling of forms and strategies from the first two decades of the twentieth century. Others view it, more positively, as a new articulation of the specific conditions of cultural production in the postwar period. Benjamin Buchloh, one of the most insightful art critics and theoreticians of recent decades, argues for a dialectical approach to these positions.This collection contains eighteen essays written by Buchloh over the last twenty years. Each looks at a single artist within the framework of specific theoretical and historical questions. The art movements covered include Nouveau Realisme in France (Arman, Yves Klein, Jacques de la Villegle) art in postwar Germany (Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter), American Fluxus and pop art (Robert Watts and Andy Warhol), minimalism and postminimal art (Michael Asher and Richard Serra), and European and American conceptual art (Daniel Buren, Dan Graham). Buchloh addresses some artists in terms of their oppositional approaches to language and painting, for example, Nancy Spero and Lawrence Weiner. About others, he asks more general questions concerning the development of models of institutional critique (Hans Haacke) and the theorization of the museum (Marcel Broodthaers); or he addresses the formation of historical memory in postconceptual art (James Coleman). One of the book's strengths is its systematic, interconnected account of the key issues of American and European artistic practice during two decades of postwar art. Another is Buchloh's method, which integrates formalist and socio-historical approaches specific to each subject.

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MIT Press

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0262523477

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Adverbials in Use

From Predicative to Discourse Functions

By: Laure Sarda,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Benjamin Fagard,Michel Charolles

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Adverbials in Use

From Predicative to Discourse Functions

By: Laure Sarda,Shirley Carter-Thomas,Benjamin Fagard,Michel Charolles

Contributions in this volume will lead to a better understanding of the complex interplay of competing motivations affecting the use of adverbials in...

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Presses universitaires de Louvain

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2875583069

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin

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The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through February 29, 1784

By: Benjamin Franklin

After the signing of the definitive peace treaty on September 3, 1783, Franklin’s official duties as minister plenipotentiary diminished. Great Britain refused to negotiate a commercial agreement, and Congress failed to act on the draft treaties of commerce with Denmark and Portugal that Franklin had sent them the previous summer. In the six months after the peace was settled, Franklin’s sole diplomatic achievement was a draft consular convention with France. With his welcome leisure time, however, Franklin eagerly followed scientific developments (witnessing the first balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French government on schemes for civic improvement, and wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it meant to be American.

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Yale University Press

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0300210817

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Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2

Hands-On Computer Vision with TensorFlow 2

Origins of Cuban Music and Dance

Origins of Cuban Music and Dance

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps

Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin (Illustrated)

Benjamin Disraeli Letters

Benjamin Disraeli Letters

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry

Adverbials in Use

Adverbials in Use

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin

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