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Machine Learning Solutions

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Machine Learning Solutions

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) helps you find hidden insights from your data without the need for explicit programming. This book is your key to solving any kind of ML problem you might come across in your job. You’ll encounter a set of simple to complex problems while building ML models, and you'll not only resolve these problems, but you’ll also learn how to build projects based on each problem, with a practical approach and easy-to-follow examples. The book includes a wide range of applications: from analytics and NLP, to computer vision domains. Some of the applications you will be working on include stock price prediction, a recommendation engine, building a chat-bot, a facial expression recognition system, and many more. The problem examples we cover include identifying the right algorithm for your dataset and use cases, creating and labeling datasets, getting enough clean data to carry out processing, identifying outliers, overftting datasets, hyperparameter tuning, and more. Here, you'll also learn to make more timely and accurate predictions. In addition, you'll deal with more advanced use cases, such as building a gaming bot, building an extractive summarization tool for medical documents, and you'll also tackle the problems faced while building an ML model. By the end of this book, you'll be able to fine-tune your models as per your needs to deliver maximum productivity.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Machine Learning Solutions
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about Transfer Learning. We explored different libraries and approaches in order to build a real-time object detection application. You learned how to set up OpenCV and looked at how it is rather useful in building the baseline application. In this baseline approach, we used the model that is trained using the caffe deep learning library. After that, we used TensorFlow to build real-time object detection, but in the end, we used a pre-trained YOLO model, which outperformed every other approach. This YOLO-based approach gave us more generalized approach for object detection applications. If you are interested in building innovative solutions for computer vision, then you can enroll yourself in the VOC challenges. This boosts your skills and gives you a chance to learn. You can refer to this link for more information: http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk/pascal/VOC/ (PASCAL VOC Challenges 2005-2012). You can also build your own algorithm and check the result and...