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Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - Second Edition

By : Rowel Atienza
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Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras - Second Edition

By: Rowel Atienza

Overview of this book

Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras, Second Edition is a completely updated edition of the bestselling guide to the advanced deep learning techniques available today. Revised for TensorFlow 2.x, this edition introduces you to the practical side of deep learning with new chapters on unsupervised learning using mutual information, object detection (SSD), and semantic segmentation (FCN and PSPNet), further allowing you to create your own cutting-edge AI projects. Using Keras as an open-source deep learning library, the book features hands-on projects that show you how to create more effective AI with the most up-to-date techniques. Starting with an overview of multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and recurrent neural networks (RNNs), the book then introduces more cutting-edge techniques as you explore deep neural network architectures, including ResNet and DenseNet, and how to create autoencoders. You will then learn about GANs, and how they can unlock new levels of AI performance. Next, you’ll discover how a variational autoencoder (VAE) is implemented, and how GANs and VAEs have the generative power to synthesize data that can be extremely convincing to humans. You'll also learn to implement DRL such as Deep Q-Learning and Policy Gradient Methods, which are critical to many modern results in AI.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

1. An Overview of GANs

Before we move into the more advanced concepts of GANs, let's start by going over GANs and introducing the underlying concepts behind them. GANs are very powerful; this simple statement is proven by the fact that they can generate new human faces that are not of real people by performing latent space interpolations.

The advanced features of GANs can be seen in these YouTube videos:

The videos that show how GANs can be utilized to produce realistic faces demonstrate how powerful they can be. This topic is much more advanced than anything we've looked at before in this book. For example, the above videos demonstrate things that can't be accomplished easily by autoencoders, which we covered in Chapter 3, Autoencoders.

GANs are able to learn how to model the input...