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
eld 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
nish 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.
