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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)

Types of Attention


There are two types attention mechanisms. They are as follows:

  • Hard attention
  • Soft attention

Let's now take a look at each one in detail in the following sections.

Hard Attention

In reality, in our recent image caption example, several more pictures would be selected, but due to our training with the handwritten captions, those would never be weighted higher. However, the essential thing to understand is how the system would understand what all pixels (or more precisely, the CNN representations of them) the system focuses on to draw these high-resolution images of different aspects and then how to choose the next pixel to repeat the process.

In the preceding example, the points are chosen at random from a distribution and the process is repeated. Also, which pixels around this point get a higher resolution is decided inside the attention network. This type of attention is known as hard attention.

Hard attention has something called the differentiability problem. Let's spend some...