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Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

By : Anubhav Singh, Sayak Paul
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Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

By: Anubhav Singh, Sayak Paul

Overview of this book

When used effectively, deep learning techniques can help you develop intelligent web apps. In this book, you'll cover the latest tools and technological practices that are being used to implement deep learning in web development using Python. Starting with the fundamentals of machine learning, you'll focus on DL and the basics of neural networks, including common variants such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). You'll learn how to integrate them into websites with the frontends of different standard web tech stacks. The book then helps you gain practical experience of developing a deep learning-enabled web app using Python libraries such as Django and Flask by creating RESTful APIs for custom models. Later, you'll explore how to set up a cloud environment for deep learning-based web deployments on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Next, you'll learn how to use Microsoft's intelligent Emotion API, which can detect a person's emotions through a picture of their face. You'll also get to grips with deploying real-world websites, in addition to learning how to secure websites using reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare. Finally, you'll use NLP to integrate a voice UX through Dialogflow on your web pages. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to deploy intelligent web apps and websites with the help of effective tools and practices.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Artificial Intelligence on the Web
3
Using Deep Learning for Web Development
7
Getting Started with Different Deep Learning APIs for Web Development
12
Deep Learning in Production (Intelligent Web Apps)
Appendix: Success Stories and Emerging Areas in Deep Learning on the Web

Object detection using the Face API and Python

Object detection is a classic use case of computer vision and is widely applied to a number of real-world problems, such as video surveillance systems. In this section, we will be using the Face API to detect faces from a given image. This has direct use when designing video surveillance systems. You can learn more about the Face API from its official page at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/face/.

The initial setup

Azure lets you try this API for free for a duration of 7 days, as well. But since you already have an Azure account (with free credit, I am assuming), we can do it another way, as shown:

  1. Sign in to your Azure account.
  2. Go to https://azure...