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Intelligent Mobile Projects with TensorFlow

By : Jeff Tang
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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)

TensorFlow Lite – an overview

TensorFlow Lite (https://www.tensorflow.org/mobile/tflite) is a lightweight solution that enables running deep learning models on mobile and embedded devices. If a model built in TensorFlow or Keras can be successfully converted to the TensorFlow Lite format, a new model format based on FlatBuffers (https://google.github.io/flatbuffers), which is similar but faster and a lot smaller in size than ProtoBuffers, which we talked about in Chapter 3, Detecting Objects and Their Locations, then you can expect the model to run with low latency and a smaller binary size. The basic workflow of using TensorFlow Lite in your mobile apps is as follows:

  1. Build and train (or retrain) a TensorFlow model with TensorFlow or Keras with TensorFlow as the backend, such as the models we trained in the previous chapters.
You can also pick a prebuilt TensorFlow Lite...