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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

Building the photo effects application


In this section, we will be looking briefly at the application and highlighting some of the interesting pieces of the code, omitting most of it as it has already been discussed in previous chapters. As mentioned in the introduction, this example is to provide a case study for a later section, where we will discuss some broad strategies to use when building intelligent interfaces and services. 

If you haven't already, pull down the latest code from the accompanying repository at https://github.com/packtpublishing/machine-learning-with-core-ml. Once downloaded, navigate to the Chapter9/Start/ directory and open the project ActionShot.xcodeproj.

As mentioned in the previous section, the example for this chapter is an photo effects application. In it, the user is able to take an action shot, have the application extract each person from the frames, and compose them onto the final frame, as illustrated in the following figure:

The application consists of two...