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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

Summary


In this chapter, we introduced you to different convolutional neural network designs that have proven their effectiveness and, as a result, are widely used. We started by introducing the VGGNet model by VGG at Oxford University. Next, we moved on to GoogLeNet by Google, before finally talking about Microsoft's Residual Net. In addition, we showed you a more advanced and new type of convolution that is featured in a model design called MobileNet. Throughout, we talked about the different properties and design choices that make each of these networks so good, such as skip connections, stacking small filters, or inception modules. Finally, code was given showing you how to write out these networks in TensorFlow.

In the next chapter, we will talk about a new kind of model, called a generative model, which will allow us to generate data.