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Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By : Jarred Capellman
Book Image

Hands-On Machine Learning with ML.NET

By: Jarred Capellman

Overview of this book

Machine learning (ML) is widely used in many industries such as science, healthcare, and research and its popularity is only growing. In March 2018, Microsoft introduced ML.NET to help .NET enthusiasts in working with ML. With this book, you’ll explore how to build ML.NET applications with the various ML models available using C# code. The book starts by giving you an overview of ML and the types of ML algorithms used, along with covering what ML.NET is and why you need it to build ML apps. You’ll then explore the ML.NET framework, its components, and APIs. The book will serve as a practical guide to helping you build smart apps using the ML.NET library. You’ll gradually become well versed in how to implement ML algorithms such as regression, classification, and clustering with real-world examples and datasets. Each chapter will cover the practical implementation, showing you how to implement ML within .NET applications. You’ll also learn to integrate TensorFlow in ML.NET applications. Later you’ll discover how to store the regression model housing price prediction result to the database and display the real-time predicted results from the database on your web application using ASP.NET Core Blazor and SignalR. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to confidently perform basic to advanced-level machine learning tasks in ML.NET.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Machine Learning and ML.NET
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Section 2: ML.NET Models
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Section 3: Real-World Integrations with ML.NET
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Section 4: Extending ML.NET

Breaking down Google's Inception model

Google's Inception model (https://github.com/google/inception) has been trained on millions of images to help with one of the growing questions in our society—what is in my image? The type of applications wanting to answer this question range from matching faces, automatically detecting weapons or unwanted objects, sports branding in game pictures (such as the brand of sneakers), and image archivers that provide users with the support they need to search without manual tags, to name just a few.

This type of question is typically answered with object recognition. An application of object recognition that you might already be familiar with is optical character recognition (OCR). OCR is when an image of characters can be interpreted as text, such as what is found in Microsoft's OneNote Handwriting to Text feature, or in a toll booth that reads license plates. The particular application of object recognition that we will be looking...