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Python: Advanced Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By : Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
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Python: Advanced Guide to Artificial Intelligence

By: Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani

Overview of this book

This Learning Path is your complete guide to quickly getting to grips with popular machine learning algorithms. You'll be introduced to the most widely used algorithms in supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised machine learning, and learn how to use them in the best possible manner. Ranging from Bayesian models to the MCMC algorithm to Hidden Markov models, this Learning Path will teach you how to extract features from your dataset and perform dimensionality reduction by making use of Python-based libraries. You'll bring the use of TensorFlow and Keras to build deep learning models, using concepts such as transfer learning, generative adversarial networks, and deep reinforcement learning. Next, you'll learn the advanced features of TensorFlow1.x, such as distributed TensorFlow with TF clusters, deploy production models with TensorFlow Serving. You'll implement different techniques related to object classification, object detection, image segmentation, and more. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have obtained in-depth knowledge of TensorFlow, making you the go-to person for solving artificial intelligence problems This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Mastering Machine Learning Algorithms by Giuseppe Bonaccorso • Mastering TensorFlow 1.x by Armando Fandango • Deep Learning for Computer Vision by Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
19
Tensor Processing Units
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have presented the concept of a deep convolutional network, which is a generic architecture that can be employed in any visual processing task. The idea is based on hierarchical information management, aimed at extracting the features starting from low-level elements and moving forward until the high-level details that can be helpful to achieve specific goals.

The first topic was the concept of convolution and how it's applied in discrete and finite samples. We discussed the properties of standard convolution, before analyzing some important variants such as atrous (or dilated convolution), separable (and depthwise separable) convolution and, eventually, transpose convolution. All these methods can work with 1D, 2D, and 3D samples, even if the most diffused applications are based on bidimensional (not considering the channels) matrices representing static images. In the same section, we also discussed how pooling layers can be employed to reduce the dimensionality...