This book is for Python programmers who want to learn computer vision and machine learning with OpenCV 5. It is also suitable for computer vision developers, AI/ML engineers, and practitioners who want to strengthen or refresh their OpenCV skills. No prior computer vision or machine learning experience is required, but readers should be comfortable with basic Python programming.
Joseph Howse lives in a Canadian fishing village, where he chats with his cats, crafts his books, and nurtures an orchard of hardy fruit trees. He is President of Nummist Media, a publishing and consulting company with specialties including computer vision and medical imaging. Since 2015, he has written a large part of Packt's library of technical books on OpenCV. Joseph is also the author of an award-winning novel series, Next Year's Snow, which follows a Soviet/Ukrainian family through several generations to the present day.
Joe Minichino is a Senior Cloud Architect at fourTheorem. Joe specializes in AWS architecture, ML/AI, and Data Analytics. Born and raised in Varese, Lombardy, Italy, and coming from a humanistic background in philosophy (at Università Statale in Milan), Joe has lived in Cork, Ireland, since 2004. There, he graduated in computer science at the Cork Institute of Technology.