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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

Data Augmentation

In the previous section, you were introduced to data generators that can do a lot of the heavy lifting, such as feeding the model from folders rather than columnar data for you regarding data processing for neural networks. So far, we have seen how to create them, load data from a structured folder, and feed the model by batch. We only performed one image transformation with it: rescaling. However, data generators can perform many more image transformations.

But why do we need to perform data augmentation? The answer is quite simple: to prevent overfitting. By performing data augmentation, we are increasing the number of images in a dataset. For one image, we can generate, for instance, 10 different variants of the same image. So, the size of your dataset will be multiplied by 10.

Also, with data augmentation, we have a set of images with a broader range of visuals. For example, selfie pictures can be taken from different angles, but if your dataset only contains...