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Machine Learning with Core ML

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Machine Learning with Core ML

Overview of this book

Core ML is a popular framework by Apple, with APIs designed to support various machine learning tasks. It allows you to train your machine learning models and then integrate them into your iOS apps. Machine Learning with Core ML is a fun and practical guide that not only demystifies Core ML but also sheds light on machine learning. In this book, you’ll walk through realistic and interesting examples of machine learning in the context of mobile platforms (specifically iOS). You’ll learn to implement Core ML for visual-based applications using the principles of transfer learning and neural networks. Having got to grips with the basics, you’ll discover a series of seven examples, each providing a new use-case that uncovers how machine learning can be applied along with the related concepts. By the end of the book, you will have the skills required to put machine learning to work in their own applications, using the Core ML APIs
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed the difference between training and inference, along with the typical ML workflow and where Core ML fits in. We also saw how Core ML is not just a single framework, but rather a suite of tools that facilitate getting pretrained models into the iOS platform and making them available to your application via a familiar and simple interface. Thus, it democratizes ML and puts it into the hands of many iOS app developers.

It has been suggested that the explosion in diverse apps contributed to the success of the adoption of smartphones; if this is true, then prepare yourself for the next explosion of AI-enhanced apps. And take comfort knowing that you are in the perfect place to begin and lead this journey, where we will explore many concepts and examples related to computer vision using Core ML, including these:

  • Recognizing objects through the video feed of your camera 
  • Leveraging object detection to build intelligent image search, allowing you to search for...