About the Author

Amgad Muhammad has a master's degree in computer science from the American University in Cairo. He is a data scientist passionate about building and designing machine learning models and engineering features in computer vision research. He started working with computer vision in 2011, and now he is developing state-of-the-art machine learning and computer vision algorithms in the field of biometric extraction and registration, including face and person detection, human tracking, and 2D/3D-based pose estimation.

First, I would like to thank my lovely wife, Noha, and my beautiful kids, Zain, Hla, and Darine, for their continuous care so that I could finish this book. The book is the fruit of my family's support and understanding, in spite of all the time it took me away from them, and all the weekends I spent in front of my computer. It was really a challenging and long journey, having a full-time job and my graduate studies while writing this book, but, as a loving and caring family, we were able to pull through.

I would also like to thank my best friend, Ahmed Hassan Alley, for the beautiful graphics and illustrations. And I would like to thank Mayur Pawanikar, Manthan Raja, and Meeta Rajani for helping me throughout the editing process; they made it really easy.