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Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By : Dipanjan Sarkar, Nitin Panwar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh
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Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By: Dipanjan Sarkar, Nitin Panwar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh

Overview of this book

Transfer learning is a machine learning (ML) technique where knowledge gained during training a set of problems can be used to solve other similar problems. The purpose of this book is two-fold; firstly, we focus on detailed coverage of deep learning (DL) and transfer learning, comparing and contrasting the two with easy-to-follow concepts and examples. The second area of focus is real-world examples and research problems using TensorFlow, Keras, and the Python ecosystem with hands-on examples. The book starts with the key essential concepts of ML and DL, followed by depiction and coverage of important DL architectures such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep neural networks (DNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM), and capsule networks. Our focus then shifts to transfer learning concepts, such as model freezing, fine-tuning, pre-trained models including VGG, inception, ResNet, and how these systems perform better than DL models with practical examples. In the concluding chapters, we will focus on a multitude of real-world case studies and problems associated with areas such as computer vision, audio analysis and natural language processing (NLP). By the end of this book, you will be able to implement both DL and transfer learning principles in your own systems.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Automated Image Caption Generator

In the previous chapters, we looked at several case studies pertaining to applying transfer learning on problems in computer vision as well as natural language processing (NLP). However, these were problems in their own specific domains. In this chapter, we will be focusing on building an intelligent system that is a combination of these two popular domains—computer vision and NLP. To be more specific, we will be focusing on building an object-recognition system coupled with machine translation to build an automated image-caption generator.

The idea of image captioning is not something new. Typically, any image present in diverse sources of media, such as books, papers, or social media, usually needs to be captioned with a proper text description for better meaning and context. What makes this task tough is that an image caption is typically...