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The TensorFlow Workshop

By : Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone
Book Image

The TensorFlow Workshop

By: Matthew Moocarme, Abhranshu Bagchi, Anthony So, Anthony Maddalone

Overview of this book

Getting to grips with tensors, deep learning, and neural networks can be intimidating and confusing for anyone, no matter their experience level. The breadth of information out there, often written at a very high level and aimed at advanced practitioners, can make getting started even more challenging. If this sounds familiar to you, The TensorFlow Workshop is here to help. Combining clear explanations, realistic examples, and plenty of hands-on practice, it’ll quickly get you up and running. You’ll start off with the basics – learning how to load data into TensorFlow, perform tensor operations, and utilize common optimizers and activation functions. As you progress, you’ll experiment with different TensorFlow development tools, including TensorBoard, TensorFlow Hub, and Google Colab, before moving on to solve regression and classification problems with sequential models. Building on this solid foundation, you’ll learn how to tune models and work with different types of neural network, getting hands-on with real-world deep learning applications such as text encoding, temperature forecasting, image augmentation, and audio processing. By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have the skills, knowledge, and confidence to tackle your own ambitious deep learning projects with TensorFlow.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Preface

Summary

This chapter covered CNNs. We reviewed core concepts such as neurons, layers, model architecture, and tensors to understand how to create effective CNNs.

You learned about the convolution operation and explored kernels and feature maps. We analyzed how to assemble a CNN, and then explored the different types of pooling layers and when to apply them.

You then learned about the stride operation and how padding is used to create extra space around images if needed. Then, we delved into the flattening layer and how it is able to convert data into a 1D array for the next layer. You put everything that you learned to the test in the final activity, as you were presented with several classification problems, including CIFAR-10 and even CIFAR-100.

In completing this chapter, you are now well on your way to being able to implement CNNs to confront image classification problems head-on and with confidence.

In the next chapter, you'll learn about pre-trained models and...