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Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By : Jeff Tang
Book Image

Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By: Jeff Tang

Overview of this book

As a developer, you always need to keep an eye out and be ready for what will be trending soon, while also focusing on what's trending currently. So, what's better than learning about the integration of the best of both worlds, the present and the future? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely regarded as the next big thing after mobile, and Google's TensorFlow is the leading open source machine learning framework, the hottest branch of AI. This book covers more than 10 complete iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi apps powered by TensorFlow and built from scratch, running all kinds of cool TensorFlow models offline on-device: from computer vision, speech and language processing to generative adversarial networks and AlphaZero-like deep reinforcement learning. You’ll learn how to use or retrain existing TensorFlow models, build your own models, and develop intelligent mobile apps running those TensorFlow models. You'll learn how to quickly build such apps with step-by-step tutorials and how to avoid many pitfalls in the process with lots of hard-earned troubleshooting tips.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to install TensorFlow 1.4 on Mac and Ubuntu, how to set up a cost effective NVIDIA GPU on Ubuntu for faster model training, and how to set up Xcode and Android Studio for mobile AI app development. We also showed you how to run some cool sample TensorFlow iOS and Android apps. We'll discuss in detail in the rest of the book how to build and train, or retrain each of those models used in the apps, and many others, on our GPU-powered Ubuntu system, and show you how to deploy the models in iOS and Android apps and write the code to use the models in your mobile AI apps. Now that we're all set and ready, we can't wait to hit the road. It'll be an exciting journey, a journey we'd certainly be happy to share with our friends. So why not start with our best friends, and let's see what it takes to build a dog breed recognition app?