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Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By : Dipanjan Sarkar, Nitin Panwar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh
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Hands-On Transfer Learning with Python

By: Dipanjan Sarkar, Nitin Panwar, 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)

Summary

This chapter presented a very novel technique in the deep learning landscape, leveraging the power of deep learning to create art! Indeed, data science is an art as well as a science of using data in the right way, and innovation is something that drives that. We covered the core concepts of neural style transfer, how to represent and formulate the problem using an effective loss function, and how to leverage the power of transfer learning and pretrained models like VGG-16 to extract the right feature representations.

The field of computer vision is ever evolving, and deep learning coupled with transfer learning has opened up doors for innovation and building novel applications. The examples in this chapter should help you appreciate the vast scope of novelty in this field, and enable you to get out there and try new techniques, models, and methods to build systems like...