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Deep Learning By Example

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Deep Learning By Example

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a popular subset of machine learning, and it allows you to build complex models that are faster and give more accurate predictions. This book is your companion to take your first steps into the world of deep learning, with hands-on examples to boost your understanding of the topic. This book starts with a quick overview of the essential concepts of data science and machine learning which are required to get started with deep learning. It introduces you to Tensorflow, the most widely used machine learning library for training deep learning models. You will then work on your first deep learning problem by training a deep feed-forward neural network for digit classification, and move on to tackle other real-world problems in computer vision, language processing, sentiment analysis, and more. Advanced deep learning models such as generative adversarial networks and their applications are also covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of all the essential concepts in deep learning. With the help of the examples and code provided in this book, you will be equipped to train your own deep learning models with more confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Implementing Fish Recognition

TensorFlow terminologies – recap

In this section, we will provide an overview of the TensorFlow library as well as the structure of a basic TensorFlow application. TensorFlow is an open source library for creating large-scale machine learning applications; it can model computations on a wide variety of hardware, ranging from android devices to heterogeneous multi-gpu systems.

TensorFlow uses a special structure in order to execute code on different devices such as CPUs and GPUs. Computations are defined as a graph and each graph is made up of operations, also known as ops, so whenever we work with TensorFlow, we define the series of operations in a graph.

To run these operations, we need to launch the graph into a session. The session translates the operations and passes them to a device for execution.

For example, the following image represents a graph in TensorFlow. W...