L0 Zero

Level 0 - Zero: Getting Started with Basics 💪

These challenges introduce fundamental computer vision concepts and hands-on projects for beginners.

1. Getting Started with Images

   • Description: Learn the basics of working with images in Python. Load images, display them, and perform basic transformations like rotations, color conversions, and more.
   • Key Concepts: Image loading, transformations, color models, OpenCV basics.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

2. Basic Image Manipulation

   • Description: Modify pixel values, resize, flip, crop, and add annotations to images using OpenCV. Develop a basic understanding of pixel-level operations.
   • Key Concepts: Resizing, cropping, flipping, drawing on images, pixel-level access.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

3. Image Filtering & Restoration

   • Description: Apply filters to enhance or manipulate image features. Experiment with blurring, sharpening, and noise removal techniques.
   • Key Concepts: Image filtering, noise removal, sharpening, Gaussian filters.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

4. Image Enhancement

   • Description: Use arithmetic and bitwise operations to enhance images. Learn how to apply operations like image addition, subtraction, and more.
   • Key Concepts: Bitwise operations, image enhancement, pixel-level operations.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

5. Image Segmentation (Traditional)

   • Description: Learn about traditional image segmentation techniques to divide an image into meaningful parts (regions or objects).
   • Key Concepts: Thresholding, edge detection, contour detection.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

6. Feature Extraction & Alignment

   • Description: Extract features using various descriptors and align them for matching or comparison tasks.
   • Key Concepts: Feature extraction, keypoints, feature matching.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab

7. Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

   • Description: Learn to recognize and extract text from images using OCR libraries like Tesseract, PyTesseract, and EasyOCR.
   • Key Concepts: OCR, text extraction, image-to-text conversion.
   • Notebook: Open in Colab