Joseph Howse lives in Canada. During the cold winters, he grows a
beard and his four cats grow thick coats of fur. He combs the cats
every day. Sometimes, the cats pull his beard.
Joseph has been writing for Packt Publishing since 2012. His books
include OpenCV for Secret Agents, OpenCV 3 Blueprints, Android
Application Programming with OpenCV 3, Learning OpenCV 3 Computer
Vision with Python, and Python Game Programming by Example.
When he is not writing books or grooming cats, Joseph provides
consulting, training, and software development services through his
company, Nummist Media (http://nummist.com). Steven Puttemans is a
PhD research candidate at the KU Leuven, Department of Industrial
Engineering Sciences. At this university, he is working for the
EAVISE research group, which focuses on combining computer vision
and artificial intelligence. He obtained a master of science degree
in Electronics-ICT and further expanded his interest in computer
vision by obtaining a master of science in artificial
intelligence.
As an enthusiastic researcher, his goal is to combine
state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms with real-life
industrial problems to provide robust and complete object detection
solutions for the industry. His previous projects include TOBCAT,
an open source object detection framework for industrial object
detection problems, and a variety of smaller computer vision-based
industrial projects. During these projects, Steven worked closely
with the industry.
Steven is also an active participant in the OpenCV community. He is
a moderator of the OpenCV Q&A forum, and has submitted or
reviewed many bug fixes and improvements for OpenCV 3. He also
focuses on putting as much of his research as possible back into
the framework to further support the open source spirit.
More info about Steven's research, projects, and interests can be
found at https://stevenputtemans.github.io. Quan Hua is a software
engineer at Autonomous, a start-up company in robotics, where he
focuses on developing computer vision and machine learning
applications for personal robots. He earned a bachelor of science
degree from the University of Science, Vietnam, specializing in
computer vision, and published a research paper in CISIM 2014. As
the owner of Quan404.com, he also blogs about various computer
vision techniques to share his experience with the community.
Utkarsh Sinha lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he is
pursuing a master's in computer vision at Carnegie Mellon
University. He intends to learn the state of the art of computer
vision at the university and work on real-life industrial scale
computer vision challenges.
Before joining CMU, he worked as a Technical Director at Dreamworks
Animation on movies such as Home, How to Train your Dragon 2, and
Madagascar 3. His work spans multiple movies and multiple
generations of graphics technology.
He earned his bachelor of engineering degree in computer science
and his master of science degree in mathematics from BITS-Pilani,
Goa. He has been working in the field of computer vision for about
6 years as a consultant and as a software engineer at
start-ups.
He blogs at http://utkarshsinha.com/ about various topics in
technology—most of which revolve around computer vision. He also
publishes computer vision tutorials on the Internet through his
website, AI Shack (http://aishack.in/). His articles help people
understand concepts in computer vision every day.
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