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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

Scaling computation in the cloud


During your design cycle and life as a machine learning engineer, you may face occasions where the amount of computation power available at your office is simply not enough, and you can't wait for your IT team to buy you a new server. So, for example, if you can afford 24.48 dollars/hour, you may have a p3.16xlarge with 8 GPUs Nvidia V100, 64 cores, and 488 GB of RAM.

In this section, you will learn about Amazon AWS services that might help you deal with a lack of computing power issues.

You will learn about the following Amazon Cloud Services:

  • Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
  • S3
  • SageMaker

 

EC2

This is the service where we create our servers, where you basically create any server to do your work:

Here, you configure stuff like how you want to access your server (normally with a private key):

Here, we configure how much disk space we want:

And here, we configure the ports that are going to be available:

Available ports

AMI

This is one of the coolest Features in AWS, and it...