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Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By : Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra
Book Image

Apache Spark Deep Learning Cookbook

By: Ahmed Sherif, Amrith Ravindra

Overview of this book

Organizations these days need to integrate popular big data tools such as Apache Spark with highly efficient deep learning libraries if they’re looking to gain faster and more powerful insights from their data. With this book, you’ll discover over 80 recipes to help you train fast, enterprise-grade, deep learning models on Apache Spark. Each recipe addresses a specific problem, and offers a proven, best-practice solution to difficulties encountered while implementing various deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. The book follows a systematic approach, featuring a balance of theory and tips with best practice solutions to assist you with training different types of neural networks such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). You’ll also have access to code written in TensorFlow and Keras that you can run on Spark to solve a variety of deep learning problems in computer vision and natural language processing (NLP), or tweak to tackle other problems encountered in deep learning. By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to train and deploy state-of-the-art deep learning models on Apache Spark.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Downloading and loading the MIT-CBCL dataset into the memory


In this recipe, we will understand how to download the MIT-CBCL dataset and load it into the memory.

With a predicted worth of $15 billion by 2025, the biometrics industry is poised to grow like never before. Some of the examples of physiological characteristics used for biometric authentication include fingerprints, DNA, face, retina or ear features, and voice. While technologies such as DNA authentication and fingerprints are quite advanced, face recognition brings its own advantages to the table.

Ease of use and robustness due to recent developments in deep learning models are some of the driving factors behind face recognition algorithms gaining so much popularity.

Getting ready

The following key points need to be considered for this recipe:

  • The MIT-CBCL dataset is composed of 3,240 images (324 images per subject). In our model, we will make arrangements to augment the data in order to increase model robustness. We will employ techniques...