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Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By : Niloy Purkait
Book Image

Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras

By: Niloy Purkait

Overview of this book

Neural networks are used to solve a wide range of problems in different areas of AI and deep learning. Hands-On Neural Networks with Keras will start with teaching you about the core concepts of neural networks. You will delve into combining different neural network models and work with real-world use cases, including computer vision, natural language understanding, synthetic data generation, and many more. Moving on, you will become well versed with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, autoencoders, and generative adversarial networks (GANs) using real-world training datasets. We will examine how to use CNNs for image recognition, how to use reinforcement learning agents, and many more. We will dive into the specific architectures of various networks and then implement each of them in a hands-on manner using industry-grade frameworks. By the end of this book, you will be highly familiar with all prominent deep learning models and frameworks, and the options you have when applying deep learning to real-world scenarios and embedding artificial intelligence as the core fabric of your organization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Neural Networks
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Section 2: Advanced Neural Network Architectures
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Section 3: Hybrid Model Architecture
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Section 4: Road Ahead

Understanding biological vision

Our next insight into biological visual systems comes from a series of experiments conducted by scientists from Harvard University, back in the late 1950s. Nobel laureates David Hubel and Torstein Wiesel showed the world the inner workings of the mammalian visual cortex, by mapping the action of receptor cells along with the visual pathway of a cat, from the retina to the visual cortex. These scientists used electrophysiology to understand exactly how our sensory organs intake, process, and interpret electromagnetic radiation, to generate the reality we see around us. This allowed them to better appreciate the flow of stimuli and related responses that occur at the level of individual neurons:

The following screenshot describes how cells respond to light:

Thanks to their experiments in the field of neuroscience, we are able to share with you several...