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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

Chapter 5. VGG, Inception Modules, Residuals, and MobileNets

So far, we have discussed all the necessary building blocks for us to be able to implement solutions to common problems such as image classification and detection. In this chapter, we will talk about the implementation of some common model architectures that have shown high performance in many of these common tasks. These architectures have remained popular since they were first created, and they continue to be widely used today.

By the end of this chapter, you will gain an understanding of the different types of CNN models that exist, along with their use cases in a variety of different computer vision problems. While implementing these models, you will learn how these models were designed and the advantages for each of them. Finally, we will talk about how we can modify these architectures in order to make training and performance/efficiency better.

In summary, this chapter will cover the following topics:

  • How to improve parameter...