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The Deep Learning Workshop

By : Mirza Rahim Baig, Thomas V. Joseph, Nipun Sadvilkar, Mohan Kumar Silaparasetty, Anthony So
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The Deep Learning Workshop

By: Mirza Rahim Baig, Thomas V. Joseph, Nipun Sadvilkar, Mohan Kumar Silaparasetty, Anthony So

Overview of this book

Are you fascinated by how deep learning powers intelligent applications such as self-driving cars, virtual assistants, facial recognition devices, and chatbots to process data and solve complex problems? Whether you are familiar with machine learning or are new to this domain, The Deep Learning Workshop will make it easy for you to understand deep learning with the help of interesting examples and exercises throughout. The book starts by highlighting the relationship between deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence and helps you get comfortable with the TensorFlow 2.0 programming structure using hands-on exercises. You’ll understand neural networks, the structure of a perceptron, and how to use TensorFlow to create and train models. The book will then let you explore the fundamentals of computer vision by performing image recognition exercises with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using Keras. As you advance, you’ll be able to make your model more powerful by implementing text embedding and sequencing the data using popular deep learning solutions. Finally, you’ll get to grips with bidirectional recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and build generative adversarial networks (GANs) for image synthesis. By the end of this deep learning book, you’ll have learned the skills essential for building deep learning models with TensorFlow and Keras.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
Preface

Neural Networks and the Structure of Perceptrons

A neuron is a basic building block of the human nervous system, which relays electric signals across the body. The human brain consists of billions of interconnected biological neurons, and they are constantly communicating with each other by sending minute electrical binary signals by turning themselves on or off. The general meaning of a neural network is a network of interconnected neurons. In the current context, we are referring to ANNs, which are actually modeled on a biological neural network. The term artificial intelligence is derived from the fact that natural intelligence exists in the human brain (or any brain for that matter), and we humans are trying to simulate this natural intelligence artificially. Though ANNs are inspired by biological neurons, some of the advanced neural network architectures, such as CNNs and RNNs, do not actually mimic the behavior of a biological neuron. However, for ease of understanding, we will...