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Python Deep Learning

By : Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants
Book Image

Python Deep Learning

By: Valentino Zocca, Gianmario Spacagna, Daniel Slater, Peter Roelants

Overview of this book

With an increasing interest in AI around the world, deep learning has attracted a great deal of public attention. Every day, deep learning algorithms are used broadly across different industries. The book will give you all the practical information available on the subject, including the best practices, using real-world use cases. You will learn to recognize and extract information to increase predictive accuracy and optimize results. Starting with a quick recap of important machine learning concepts, the book will delve straight into deep learning principles using Sci-kit learn. Moving ahead, you will learn to use the latest open source libraries such as Theano, Keras, Google's TensorFlow, and H20. Use this guide to uncover the difficulties of pattern recognition, scaling data with greater accuracy and discussing deep learning algorithms and techniques. Whether you want to dive deeper into Deep Learning, or want to investigate how to get more out of this powerful technology, you’ll find everything inside.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Python Deep Learning
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Image Recognition

Vision is arguably the most important human sense. We rely on our vision to recognize our food, to run away from danger, to recognize our friends and family, and to find our way in familiar surroundings. We rely on our vision, in fact, to read this book and to recognize each and every letter and symbol printed in it. However, image recognition has (and in many ways still is) for the longest time been one of the most difficult problems in computer science. It is very hard to teach a computer programmatically how to recognize different objects, because it is difficult to explain to a machine what features make up a specified object. In deep learning, however, as we have seen, the neural network learns by itself, that is, it learns what features make up each object, and it is therefore well suited for a task such as image recognition.

In this chapter we will cover the following topics:

  • Similarities between artificial and biological models

  • Intuition and justification...