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Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow

By : Iffat Zafar, Giounona Tzanidou, Richard Burton, Nimesh Patel, Leonardo Araujo
Book Image

Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow

By: Iffat Zafar, Giounona Tzanidou, Richard Burton, Nimesh Patel, Leonardo Araujo

Overview of this book

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are one of the most popular architectures used in computer vision apps. This book is an introduction to CNNs through solving real-world problems in deep learning while teaching you their implementation in popular Python library - TensorFlow. By the end of the book, you will be training CNNs in no time! We start with an overview of popular machine learning and deep learning models, and then get you set up with a TensorFlow development environment. This environment is the basis for implementing and training deep learning models in later chapters. Then, you will use Convolutional Neural Networks to work on problems such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation. After that, you will use transfer learning to see how these models can solve other deep learning problems. You will also get a taste of implementing generative models such as autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Later on, you will see useful tips on machine learning best practices and troubleshooting. Finally, you will learn how to apply your models on large datasets of millions of images.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Substituting big convolutions


Before we jump in, we will first learn about the techniques that can reduce the number of parameters a model uses. This is important, firstly because it should improve your network's ability to generalize, as it will need less training data fed into it to utilize the number of parameters present in the model. Secondly, having less parameters means more hardware efficiency, as less memory will be needed.

 

Here, we will start by explaining one important technique for reducing model parameters, cascading several small convolutions together. In the diagram that follows, we have two 3x3 convolution layers. If we look at the second layer, on the right of the diagram, working back, we can see that one neuron in the second layer has a 3x3 receptive field:

 

 

When we say "receptive field," we mean the area that it can see from a previous layer. In this example, a 3x3 area is needed to create one output, hence a 3x3 receptive field.

Working back another layer, each element...