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Deep Learning By Example

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Deep Learning By Example

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a popular subset of machine learning, and it allows you to build complex models that are faster and give more accurate predictions. This book is your companion to take your first steps into the world of deep learning, with hands-on examples to boost your understanding of the topic. This book starts with a quick overview of the essential concepts of data science and machine learning which are required to get started with deep learning. It introduces you to Tensorflow, the most widely used machine learning library for training deep learning models. You will then work on your first deep learning problem by training a deep feed-forward neural network for digit classification, and move on to tackle other real-world problems in computer vision, language processing, sentiment analysis, and more. Advanced deep learning models such as generative adversarial networks and their applications are also covered in this book. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of all the essential concepts in deep learning. With the help of the examples and code provided in this book, you will be equipped to train your own deep learning models with more confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Implementing Fish Recognition

Motivation

Traditional computer vision techniques were used to perform most computer vision tasks, such as object detection and segmentation. The performance of these traditional computer vision techniques was good but it was never close to being usable in real time, for example by autonomous cars. In 2012, Alex Krizhevsky introduced CNNs, which made a breakthrough on the ImageNet competition by enhancing the object classification error from 26% to 15%. CNNs have been widely used since then and different variations have been discovered. It has even outperformed the human classification error over the ImageNet competition, as shown in the following diagram:

Figure 9.4: Classification error over time with human level error marked in red

Applications of CNNs

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