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Practical Convolutional Neural Networks

By : Mohit Sewak, Md. Rezaul Karim, Pradeep Pujari
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Practical Convolutional Neural Networks

By: Mohit Sewak, Md. Rezaul Karim, Pradeep Pujari

Overview of this book

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is revolutionizing several application domains such as visual recognition systems, self-driving cars, medical discoveries, innovative eCommerce and more.You will learn to create innovative solutions around image and video analytics to solve complex machine learning and computer vision related problems and implement real-life CNN models. This book starts with an overview of deep neural networkswith the example of image classification and walks you through building your first CNN for human face detector. We will learn to use concepts like transfer learning with CNN, and Auto-Encoders to build very powerful models, even when not much of supervised training data of labeled images is available. Later we build upon the learning achieved to build advanced vision related algorithms for object detection, instance segmentation, generative adversarial networks, image captioning, attention mechanisms for vision, and recurrent models for vision. By the end of this book, you should be ready to implement advanced, effective and efficient CNN models at your professional project or personal initiatives by working on complex image and video datasets.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Convolutional autoencoder

A convolutional autoencoder is a neural network (a special case of an unsupervised learning model) that is trained to reproduce its input image in the output layer. An image is passed through an encoder, which is a ConvNet that produces a low-dimensional representation of the image. The decoder, which is another sample ConvNet, takes this compressed image and reconstructs the original image.

The encoder is used to compress the data and the decoder is used to reproduce the original image. Therefore, autoencoders may be used for data, compression. Compression logic is data-specific, meaning it is learned from data rather than predefined compression algorithms such as JPEG, MP3, and so on. Other applications of autoencoders can be image denoising (producing a cleaner image from a corrupted image), dimensionality reduction, and image search:

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