I use Python for named entity recognition task and I wanna use CRF. I am looking for a python implementation of CRF. I've realized that 3 implementations of CRF (StanfordNER, CRF++ and CRFsuite) has python bindings but only by CRFsuite I can train a model in python, while with CRF++ and StanfordNER, I can only try the existing models in python.
On the other hand, I have so many problems with building CRFsuite bindings for python in windows. I found the descripition in CRFsuite website incomplete or maybe I can't understand it well!
I just looked through similar questions about any python implementation of CRF and noticed that people mentioned that it is easy to have access CRFsuite from python! like these two examples:
1- code for CRF implementation in C++ or Matlab for images,
2- Implementation of CRF in python
I would appreciate it if anybody tried to build these bindings in windows share the instructions with me. Or even any other suggestion about using CRF in python?
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I am relatively new to coding and I apologize if my questions are straightforward to you.
I am trying to understand OpenCV code to be able to add my contributions (mainly converting 2D tools to 3D as it would be useful for my machine learning projects and for medical projects). There is also some extra-curiosity since I like to understand how things work.
1) On the example of the GaussianBlur method. What happens when I call it in Python? Namely, how the Python code is bind to the C++ one? When I browse the repository, there are all C++ files, and I do not find where it is done. When I installed cv2 with pip all was automatic, but I would like to understand the process.
2) if I want to understand the whole GaussianBlur algorithm, I am also not familiar with C++ browsing, so how should I proceed to retrieve what files are used (methods and also inherited classes).
I've found on another answer that https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/9c23f2f1a682faa9f0b2c2223a857c7d93ba65a6/modules/imgproc/src/smooth.cpp#L4085 contains the method, but how can I find any method on my own? Why isn't it in the master folder but in the blob folder? How to find then the other methods or classes called by this one?
3) this is more a curiosity question since I am not familiar with makefiles, but when is done the binding between Python and C++? When I install OpenCV with pip it is done automatically, but I would like to understand the process.
Thanks a lot for your answers! I would appreciate any tutorial since I've googled a lot before asking, of course, but did not find what could help me on my own.
In C++ you have to download the library and link them in the compilation and linking process (when creating an executable from source code).
The C++ bind is done with python.h library for c++. using this binding OpenCV module is created for python.
For learning gaussian blur, etc. you can learn image processing.
The methods of Opencv are kept in their respective files. like opencv2/highgui.hpp for OpenCV GUI like imshow. you can import them to C++ with #include <opencv2/highgui.hpp>(the methods are separated to different files to reduce importing unnecessary methods).
CMake is like a scripting language(its a tool) where you can write a script on how the tool should build the executable from source code.
The starter tutorial is Here
I want to integrate MATLAB and TensorFlow, although I can run TensorFlow native in python but I am required to use MATLAB for image processing. Can someone please help me out with this one?
could this work?
A MATLAB implementation of the TensorFlow Neural Networks Playground.
https://github.com/StackOverflowMATLABchat/NeuralNetPlayground
I used a mex function for inference via the C++ API of TensorFlow once. That's pretty straight forward. I had to link the required TensorFlow libs statically from source though.
Similar to #HansQ's suggestion, I am currently writing a somewhat extensive wrapper called tensorflow.m for Matlab, see its repo on GitHub. I cannot provide a stable release yet, but simple functionality like importing a frozen graph and running an inference is already possible (see the examples).
I'd be glad if the package can be of use for someone looking for similar solutions; even more so, in case you extend/implement something and open a PR.
I know that Tensorflow is written with a C++ engine, but I haven't found any C++ source code in my installation directory (I installed via pip). When I inspect the python codes, I got a sense that the python level is just a wrapper where the essence of the algorithm is not presented. For example, in tensorflow/python/ops/gradients.py, the gradients() function calls python_grad_func() to compute the gradients, which is a class method of DeFun.
My question is that, are all the essential part of Tensorflow written in C++ and the python are only serving as some APIs?
This is mostly correct, though there's a lot of sophisticated stuff implemented in Python. Instead of saying "algorithms" in C++, what I'd say is that the core dataflow execution engine and most of the ops (e.g., matmul, etc.) are in C++. A lot of the plumbing, as well as some functionality like defining gradients of functions, is in Python.
For more information and discussion about why it's this way, see this StackOverflow answer
I am using an open-source Matlab toolbox for brain-computer interface (BCI). I want to send the brain imaging data over to Tensorflow for classification and get the results back to Matlab. Is there any way to pass data structures from Matlab to Tensorflow and get the results back into Matlab?
In case someone lands here with a similar question, I'd like to suggest a Matlab package I am currently writing. It's called tensorflow.m and it's available on GitHub. There's no stable release yet, but simple functionality like importing a frozen graph and running an inference is already possible (see the examples) - this is all you'd need to classify the images in Matlab (only).
The advantage is that you don't need any expensive toolbox nor a Python/Tensorflow installation on your machine. The Python interface of Matlab also seems to be rather adventurous, while tensorflow.m is pure Matlab/C.
I'd be glad if the package can be of use for someone looking for similar solutions; even more so, in case you extend/implement something and open a PR.
So far the best way I found is to run your python module in matlab through matlab's now built-in mechanism for connecting to python:
I wrote my python script in a .py file and in there I imported tensorflow and used it in different functions. You can then return the results to matlab by calling
results = py.myModule.myFunction(arg1,arg2,...,argN)
More detailed instructions for calling user-defined python modules in matlab could be found in the following link:
http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_external/call-user-defined-custom-module.html
I will be working on an implementation of DQNs and recent extensions from Google DeepMind in Caffe.
For this I will write a simulator (in place of the Atari emulator) for creating training experiences for the agent.
My question is:
Which of the Matlab or Python interfaces to Caffe is the most mature and well functioning?
Any other considerations for choosing between Python and Matlab for this task?
It should be noted that I'm much more experienced with Python development than with Matlab development (apart from using it as a tool for math classes etc.), however a team I'm collaborating with seems to mostly use Matlab.
IMHO, it is better to use python to interface with caffe.
From my understanding caffe developers and community intend on developing the python interface more than the matlab one. One such direction is allowing for a net to be constructed purely in python (not using prototxt file at all), you can see such an example in this question.