Image Pre-processing

Prince Canuma
9 min readOct 10, 2018

In this article, we are going to go through the steps of Image preprocessing needed to train, validate and test any AI-Computer Vision model.

One of the technologies behind the CGI used in this amazing movie is called image processing

Updated on 28/08/2020

This is a topic which lacks well-democratized learning resources online. It took me a lot of time of research and yet every information available on the web that I found does not answer our most essential questions which is the following:

  • Why do we have to do it?
  • What is it actually doing behind the curtain?
  • And last but not least how can we do it ourselves?

After longing for this information so that I could share it with you, a miracle happened. I was at the right place at the right time; where I met this very intelligent and humble faculty at my university (PU) that happens to possess all the knowledge regarding image processing and offered to share her knowledge with me. I had found the missing piece of the puzzle, after that, I was very eager to learn this new spell that you do on images so I could create this article and put my series and project back on track. I couldn’t stand still knowing that there are other people out there looking for this information and I’m not doing anything to help. This is for you!

“Use power to help people. For we are given power not to…

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Prince Canuma

Helping research & production teams achieve MLOps success | Ex-@neptune_ai