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Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow

By : Iffat Zafar, Giounona Tzanidou, Richard Burton, Nimesh Patel, Leonardo Araujo
Book Image

Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow

By: Iffat Zafar, Giounona Tzanidou, Richard Burton, Nimesh Patel, Leonardo Araujo

Overview of this book

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are one of the most popular architectures used in computer vision apps. This book is an introduction to CNNs through solving real-world problems in deep learning while teaching you their implementation in popular Python library - TensorFlow. By the end of the book, you will be training CNNs in no time! We start with an overview of popular machine learning and deep learning models, and then get you set up with a TensorFlow development environment. This environment is the basis for implementing and training deep learning models in later chapters. Then, you will use Convolutional Neural Networks to work on problems such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. After that, you will use transfer learning to see how these models can solve other deep learning problems. You will also get a taste of implementing generative models such as autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Later on, you will see useful tips on machine learning best practices and troubleshooting. Finally, you will learn how to apply your models on large datasets of millions of images.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

AI and ML


For the purpose of this book, consider artificial intelligence (AI) as the field of computer science responsible for making agents (software/robots) that act to solve a specific problem. In this case, "intelligent" means that the agent is flexible and it perceives its environment through sensors and will take actions that maximize its chances to succeed at some particular goal.

We want an AI to maximize something that is named Expected Utility or the probability of getting some sort of satisfaction by doing an action. An easy to understand example of this is by going to school, you will maximize your expected utility of getting a job.

AI aspires to replace the error-prone human intelligence involved in completing tedious everyday tasks. Some central components of human intelligence that AI aims to mimic (and an intelligent agent should have) are:

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP): Give the ability to understand spoken or written human language and give natural response to questions...