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Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By : Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh
Book Image

Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By: Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh

Overview of this book

Transfer learning is a machine learning (ML) technique where knowledge gained during training a set of problems can be used to solve other similar problems. The purpose of this book is two-fold; firstly, we focus on detailed coverage of deep learning (DL) and transfer learning, comparing and contrasting the two with easy-to-follow concepts and examples. The second area of focus is real-world examples and research problems using TensorFlow, Keras, and the Python ecosystem with hands-on examples. The book starts with the key essential concepts of ML and DL, followed by depiction and coverage of important DL architectures such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep neural networks (DNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM), and capsule networks. Our focus then shifts to transfer learning concepts, such as model freezing, fine-tuning, pre-trained models including VGG, inception, ResNet, and how these systems perform better than DL models with practical examples. In the concluding chapters, we will focus on a multitude of real-world case studies and problems associated with areas such as computer vision, audio analysis and natural language processing (NLP). By the end of this book, you will be able to implement both DL and transfer learning principles in your own systems.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Image preprocessing methodology

The first and foremost step towards implementation of such a network is to preprocess the data or images in this case. The following code snippet shows some quick utilities to preprocess and postprocess images for size and channel adjustments:

import numpy as np
from keras.applications import vgg16
from keras.preprocessing.image import load_img, img_to_array


def preprocess_image(image_path, height=None, width=None):
height = 400 if not height else height
width = width if width else int(width * height / height)
img = load_img(image_path, target_size=(height, width))
img = img_to_array(img)
img = np.expand_dims(img, axis=0)
img = vgg16.preprocess_input(img)
return img

def deprocess_image(x):
# Remove zero-center by mean pixel
x[:, :, 0] += 103.939
x[:, :, 1] += 116.779
x[:, :, 2] += 123.68
# 'BGR'->&apos...