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Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By : KC Tung
Book Image

Learn TensorFlow Enterprise

By: KC Tung

Overview of this book

TensorFlow as a machine learning (ML) library has matured into a production-ready ecosystem. This beginner’s book uses practical examples to enable you to build and deploy TensorFlow models using optimal settings that ensure long-term support without having to worry about library deprecation or being left behind when it comes to bug fixes or workarounds. The book begins by showing you how to refine your TensorFlow project and set it up for enterprise-level deployment. You’ll then learn how to choose a future-proof version of TensorFlow. As you advance, you’ll find out how to build and deploy models in a robust and stable environment by following recommended practices made available in TensorFlow Enterprise. This book also teaches you how to manage your services better and enhance the performance and reliability of your artificial intelligence (AI) applications. You’ll discover how to use various enterprise-ready services to accelerate your ML and AI workflows on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Finally, you’ll scale your ML models and handle heavy workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and Cloud TPUs. By the end of this TensorFlow book, you’ll have learned the patterns needed for TensorFlow Enterprise model development, data pipelines, training, and deployment.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1 – TensorFlow Enterprise Services and Features
4
Section 2 – Data Preprocessing and Modeling
7
Section 3 – Scaling and Tuning ML Works
10
Section 4 – Model Optimization and Deployment

Handling image data for input pipelines

While there are many types of unstructured data, images are probably the most frequently encountered type. TensorFlow provided TFRecord as a type of dataset for image data. In this section, we are going to learn how to convert image data in Cloud Storage into a TFRecord object for input pipelines.

When working with image data in a TensorFlow pipeline, the raw image is typically converted to a TFRecord object for the same reason as for CSV or DataFrames. Compared to a raw numpy array, a TFRecord object is a more efficient and scalable representation of the image collections. Converting raw images to a TFRecord object is not a straightforward process. In TFRecord, the data is stored as a binary string. In this section, we are going to show how to do this step by step.

Let's start with the conversion process of converting a raw image to a TFRecord object. Feel free to upload your own images to the JupyterLab instance:

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