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Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
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Deep Learning with Theano

By: Christopher Bourez

Overview of this book

This book offers a complete overview of Deep Learning with Theano, a Python-based library that makes optimizing numerical expressions and deep learning models easy on CPU or GPU. The book provides some practical code examples that help the beginner understand how easy it is to build complex neural networks, while more experimented data scientists will appreciate the reach of the book, addressing supervised and unsupervised learning, generative models, reinforcement learning in the fields of image recognition, natural language processing, or game strategy. The book also discusses image recognition tasks that range from simple digit recognition, image classification, object localization, image segmentation, to image captioning. Natural language processing examples include text generation, chatbots, machine translation, and question answering. The last example deals with generating random data that looks real and solving games such as in the Open-AI gym. At the end, this book sums up the best -performing nets for each task. While early research results were based on deep stacks of neural layers, in particular, convolutional layers, the book presents the principles that improved the efficiency of these architectures, in order to help the reader build new custom nets.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Deep Learning with Theano
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Locating with Spatial Transformer Networks

In this chapter, the NLP field is left to come back to images, and get an example of application of recurrent neural networks to images. In Chapter 2, Classifying Handwritten Digits with a Feedforward Network we addressed the case of image classification, consisting of predicting the class of an image. Here, we'll address object localization, a common task in computer vision as well, consisting of predicting the bounding box of an object in the image.

While Chapter 2, Classifying Handwritten Digits with a Feedforward Network solved the classification task with neural nets built with linear layers, convolutions, and non-linarites, the spatial transformer is a new module built on very specific equations dedicated to the localization task.

In order to locate multiple objects in the image, spatial transformers are composed with recurrent networks. This chapter takes the opportunity to show how to use prebuilt recurrent networks in Lasagne,...