Book Image

Deep Learning with Theano

By : Christopher Bourez
Book Image

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

Natural image datasets


Image classification usually includes a wider range of objects and scenes than the MNIST handwritten digits. Most of them are natural images, meaning images that a human being would observe in the real world, such as landscapes, indoor scenes, roads, mountains, beaches, people, animals, and automobiles, as opposed to synthetic images or images generated by a computer.

To evaluate the performance of image classification networks for natural images, three main datasets are usually used by researchers to compare performance:

  • Cifar-10, a dataset of 60,000 small images (32x32) regrouped into 10 classes only, which you can easily download:

    wget https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar-10-python.tar.gz -P /sharedfiles
    tar xvzf /sharedfiles/cifar-10-python.tar.gz -C /sharedfiles/

    Here are some example images for each class:

    Cifar 10 dataset classes with samples https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~kriz/cifar.html

  • Cifar-100, a dataset of 60,000 images, partitioned into 100 classes and 20 super...