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Advanced Deep Learning with Python

By : Ivan Vasilev
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Advanced Deep Learning with Python

By: Ivan Vasilev

Overview of this book

In order to build robust deep learning systems, you’ll need to understand everything from how neural networks work to training CNN models. In this book, you’ll discover newly developed deep learning models, methodologies used in the domain, and their implementation based on areas of application. You’ll start by understanding the building blocks and the math behind neural networks, and then move on to CNNs and their advanced applications in computer vision. You'll also learn to apply the most popular CNN architectures in object detection and image segmentation. Further on, you’ll focus on variational autoencoders and GANs. You’ll then use neural networks to extract sophisticated vector representations of words, before going on to cover various types of recurrent networks, such as LSTM and GRU. You’ll even explore the attention mechanism to process sequential data without the help of recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Later, you’ll use graph neural networks for processing structured data, along with covering meta-learning, which allows you to train neural networks with fewer training samples. Finally, you’ll understand how to apply deep learning to autonomous vehicles. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered key deep learning concepts and the different applications of deep learning models in the real world.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Core Concepts
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Section 2: Computer Vision
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Section 3: Natural Language and Sequence Processing
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Section 4: A Look to the Future

Understanding Convolutional Networks

In this chapter, we'll discuss Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and their applications in Computer Vision (CV). CNNs started the modern deep learning revolution. They are at the base of virtually all recent CV advancements, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), object detection, image segmentation, neural style transfer, and much more. For this reason, we believe CNNs deserve an in-depth look that's beyond our basic understanding of them.

To do this, we'll start with a short recap of the CNN building blocks, that is, the convolutional and pooling layers. We'll discuss the various types of convolutions in use today since they are reflected in a large number of CNN applications. We'll also learn how to visualize the internal state of CNNs. Then, we'll focus on regularization techniques and implement...