How to build a PC for Deep Learning (on a budget)?
We’re going to see in this article how to choose the right components when building a personal computer for Deep Learning. The first goal of this post is not only to tell you what specific hardware you need to buy but also why you need…
Python beginners course [Tutorial] – Learn python from scratch
This is summary of the python course I’m teaching on the video.I did break down the lesson into 11 simple characters so you can easily follow it. I suggest you to use this only as a review and follow the entire lesson on the video….
Identify objects moving on a conveyor belt using Opencv with Python
In this tutorial we will learn how to create a simple prototype to detect objects passing on a conveyor belt. We will use exagonal nuts as objects. I have two sizes, a small one and a bigger one. If the small nuts are detected the…
Text recognition (OCR) with Tesseract and Opencv
In this tutorial we’re going to see how to use Tesseract to recognize text from an image. Tesseract is the most popular OCR (Optical character recognition), it is open source and it is developed by google since 2006. In this specific tutorial we will see:…
Add watermark to multiple images with Opencv and Python
We’re going to see right now how to add a watermark automatically to multiple images using Opencv with Python. So for example if this logo: And this image: Adding a watermark will look like this: First of all we import the libraries and on line…
Train YOLO to detect a custom object (online with free GPU)
In this tutorial I’m going to explain you one of the easiest way to train YOLO to detect a custom object even if you’re a beginner and have no experience with coding. You will need just a simple laptop (windows, linux or mac), as the…
Insert tetrominoes position into an array – Python Plays Tetris p. 4
Until now in this series we’ve been working to retrieve the informations from the board: detecting the board, the tetrominoes and their position.Now it’s the time to use these informations in order to process them. If we consider that we want to use some sort…
Run Mask R-CNN on GPU with Pytorch (on Ubuntu)
In this tutorial we are going to see how to run the Mask R-CNN algorythm using the GPU on the Ubuntu os system. System requirements: OS Linux Ubuntu 18.04 (it might work with earlier versions as well, but I don’t guarantee that) Nvidia GPU with…
Detect tetris board and Tetrominoes – Python Plays Tetris p. 3
We’re going to see in this tutorial how to detect the tetris board and the tetrominoes from this image below. How to detect the board? There are more methods that we can use to detect the board. Color detection: the board is the biggest black…
Windows GUI automation – Python Plays Tetris p. 2
This is the second chapter of the series Python Plays Tetris, a series where our goal is to build a script which is able to understand and play the game of tetris. In this tutorial I will explain windows GUI automation, and more specifically how…
Capture Screen from a window – Python Plays Tetris p. 1
This is a first tutorial of a new series where we are going to create a bot that plays the game of tetris automatically. The idea is that the bot takes completely the place of a human and plays the game to win it. How…
OCR Text recognition with Python and API (ocr.space)
In this article we’re going to learn how to recognize the text from a picture using Python and orc.space API. OCR (Optical character recognition) is the process by which the computer recognizes the text from an image. ocr.space is an OCR engine that offers free…