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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)

Retraining using MobileNet models

The stripped and quantized model generated in the previous section is still over 20 MB in size. This is because the pre-built Inception v3 model used for retraining is a large-scale deep learning model, with over 25 million parameters, and Inception v3 was not created with a mobile-first goal.

In June 2017, Google released MobileNets v1, a total of 16 mobile-first deep learning models for TensorFlow. These models are only a few MB in size, with 0.47 million to 4.24 million parameters, still achieving decent accuracy (just a bit lower than Inception v3). See its README for more information: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet_v1.md.

The retrain.py script discussed in the previous section also supports retraining based on MobileNet models. Simply run a command like the following:

python tensorflow/examples...