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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

Building Machine Learning Systems


In order to build a machine learning system, it is advised to start with a new small project and improve it progressively:

 

 

  1. Find a similar problem to yours and download code (and test the model to check results)
  2. Find ways to scale your computation if needed (namely, AWS/Google Cloud)
  3. Start with smaller datasets to avoid losing time just waiting for a single epoch
  4. Start with a simple architecture
  5. Use visualization/debugging (for instance, TensorBoard)
  6. Fine-tune the model, fine-tune hyperparameters, depth, architecture, layers, and the loss function
  7. Expand your dataset and ensure that it is as clean as possible
  8. Split your dataset into training, development, and testing sets
  9. Evaluate your model