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Deep Learning with Keras

By : Antonio Gulli, Sujit Pal
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Deep Learning with Keras

By: Antonio Gulli, Sujit Pal

Overview of this book

This book starts by introducing you to supervised learning algorithms such as simple linear regression, the classical multilayer perceptron and more sophisticated deep convolutional networks. You will also explore image processing with recognition of handwritten digit images, classification of images into different categories, and advanced objects recognition with related image annotations. An example of identification of salient points for face detection is also provided. Next you will be introduced to Recurrent Networks, which are optimized for processing sequence data such as text, audio or time series. Following that, you will learn about unsupervised learning algorithms such as Autoencoders and the very popular Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). You will also explore non-traditional uses of neural networks as Style Transfer. Finally, you will look at reinforcement learning and its application to AI game playing, another popular direction of research and application of neural networks.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Customizing Keras


Just as composing our basic building blocks into larger architectures enables us to build interesting deep learning models, sometimes we need to look at the other end of the spectrum. Keras has a lot of functionality built in already, so it is very likely that you can build all your models with the provided components and not feel the need for customization at all. In case you do need customization, Keras has you covered.

As you will recall, Keras is a high level API that delegates to either a TensorFlow or Theano backend for the computational heavy lifting. Any code you build for your customization will call out to one of these backends. In order to keep your code portable across the two backends, your custom code should use the Keras backend API (https://keras.io/backend/), which provides a set of functions that act like a facade over your chosen backend. Depending on the backend selected, the call to the backend facade will translate to the appropriate TensorFlow or Theano...