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Python Deep Learning Projects

By : Matthew Lamons, Rahul Kumar, Abhishek Nagaraja
Book Image

Python Deep Learning Projects

By: Matthew Lamons, Rahul Kumar, Abhishek Nagaraja

Overview of this book

Deep learning has been gradually revolutionizing every field of artificial intelligence, making application development easier. Python Deep Learning Projects imparts all the knowledge needed to implement complex deep learning projects in the field of computational linguistics and computer vision. Each of these projects is unique, helping you progressively master the subject. You’ll learn how to implement a text classifier system using a recurrent neural network (RNN) model and optimize it to understand the shortcomings you might experience while implementing a simple deep learning system. Similarly, you’ll discover how to develop various projects, including word vector representation, open domain question answering, and building chatbots using seq-to-seq models and language modeling. In addition to this, you’ll cover advanced concepts, such as regularization, gradient clipping, gradient normalization, and bidirectional RNNs, through a series of engaging projects. By the end of this book, you will have gained knowledge to develop your own deep learning systems in a straightforward way and in an efficient way
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Handwritten Digits Classification Using ConvNets

Preprocessing of images

The first step in our pipeline is face detection. We will then align the faces, extract features, and then finalize our preprocessing on Docker.

Face detection

Obviously, it's very important to first locate the faces in the given photograph so that they can be fed into the later part of the pipeline. There are lots of ways to detect faces, such as detecting skin textures, oval/round shape detection, and other statistical methods. We're going to use a method called HOG.

HOG is a feature descriptor that represents the distribution (histograms) of directions of gradients (oriented gradients), which are used as features. Gradients (x and y derivatives) of an image are useful, because the magnitude...