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Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

By : Matt Cole
Book Image

Hands-On Neural Network Programming with C#

By: Matt Cole

Overview of this book

Neural networks have made a surprise comeback in the last few years and have brought tremendous innovation in the world of artificial intelligence. The goal of this book is to provide C# programmers with practical guidance in solving complex computational challenges using neural networks and C# libraries such as CNTK, and TensorFlowSharp. This book will take you on a step-by-step practical journey, covering everything from the mathematical and theoretical aspects of neural networks, to building your own deep neural networks into your applications with the C# and .NET frameworks. This book begins by giving you a quick refresher of neural networks. You will learn how to build a neural network from scratch using packages such as Encog, Aforge, and Accord. You will learn about various concepts and techniques, such as deep networks, perceptrons, optimization algorithms, convolutional networks, and autoencoders. You will learn ways to add intelligent features to your .NET apps, such as facial and motion detection, object detection and labeling, language understanding, knowledge, and intelligent search. Throughout this book, you will be working on interesting demonstrations that will make it easier to implement complex neural networks in your enterprise applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Activation Function Timings

Detecting images

Now it's time to move on to a real project. In this example, we are going to take our base image (seen as follows) and use it to have the computer detect objects in the image. As you can see, there are several instances of people and kites in the photograph. This is the same base image used in all TensorFlowSharp examples. You are going to see the detection and highlighting progresses changes as we change our minimum allowed threshold.

Here is our base sample image, a photograph:

Minimum score for object highlighting

We talked before about the minimum score for highlighting. Let's see exactly what that means by taking a look at what happens when we use different minimum scores for object highlighting...