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Extracting features from images

An overview of feature extraction from image data

Image data can consist of millions of pixels, which is in turn represented by millions of numbers.

To reduce that amount of data into a smaller set of useful features, some sort of feature extraction technique needs to be used.

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Machine Learning for Image Data

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