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Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By : Guglielmo Iozzia
Book Image

Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark

By: Guglielmo Iozzia

Overview of this book

Deep learning is a subset of machine learning where datasets with several layers of complexity can be processed. Hands-On Deep Learning with Apache Spark addresses the sheer complexity of technical and analytical parts and the speed at which deep learning solutions can be implemented on Apache Spark. The book starts with the fundamentals of Apache Spark and deep learning. You will set up Spark for deep learning, learn principles of distributed modeling, and understand different types of neural nets. You will then implement deep learning models, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and long short-term memory (LSTM) on Spark. As you progress through the book, you will gain hands-on experience of what it takes to understand the complex datasets you are dealing with. During the course of this book, you will use popular deep learning frameworks, such as TensorFlow, Deeplearning4j, and Keras to train your distributed models. By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience with the implementation of your models on a variety of use cases.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Appendix A: Functional Programming in Scala
Appendix B: Image Data Preparation for Spark

Object recognition strategies

This section presents different computational techniques used in implementing the automated recognition of objects in digital images. Let's start by giving a definition of object recognition. In a nutshell, it is the task of finding and labeling parts of a 2D image of a scene that correspond to objects inside that scene. The following screenshot shows an example of object recognition performed manually by a human using a pencil:

Figure 13.1: An example of manual object detection

The image has been marked and labeled to show fruits recognizable as a banana and a pumpkin. This is exactly the same as what happens for calculated object recognition; it can be simply thought of as the process of drawing lines and outlining areas of an image, and finally attaching to each structure a label corresponding to the model that best represents it.

A combination...