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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

The convolution operation

The word convolvere comes from Latin and translates to convolve or roll together. From a mathematical perspective, you may define a convolution as the calculus-based integral denoting the amount by which two given functions overlap, as one of the two is slid across the other. In other words, performing the convolution operation on two functions (f and g) will produce a third function that expresses how the shape of one is modified by the other. The term convolution refers to both the result function and the computation process, with roots in the mathematical subfield of signal processing, as we can here in this diagram:

So, how can we leverage this operation to our advantage?

Preserving the spatial structure of an image

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