Practical Convolutional Neural Networks: Implement advanced deep learning models using Python

Mohit Sewak · Md. Rezaul Karim · Pradeep Pujari

Feb 2018 · Packt Publishing Ltd

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One stop guide to implementing award-winning, and cutting-edge CNN architecturesKey Features

[*]Fast-paced guide with use cases and real-world examples to get well versed with CNN techniques
[*]Implement CNN models on image classification, transfer learning, Object Detection, Instance Segmentation, GANs and more
[*]Implement powerful use-cases like image captioning, reinforcement learning for hard attention, and recurrent attention models

Book DescriptionConvolutional Neural Network (CNN) is revolutionizing several application domains such as visual recognition systems, self-driving cars, medical discoveries, innovative eCommerce and more.You will learn to create innovative solutions around image and video analytics to solve complex machine learning and computer vision related problems and implement real-life CNN models. This book starts with an overview of deep neural networkswith the example of image classification and walks you through building your first CNN for human face detector. We will learn to use concepts like transfer learning with CNN, and Auto-Encoders to build very powerful models, even when not much of supervised training data of labeled images is available. Later we build upon the learning achieved to build advanced vision related algorithms for object detection, instance segmentation, generative adversarial networks, image captioning, attention mechanisms for vision, and recurrent models for vision. By the end of this book, you should be ready to implement advanced, effective and efficient CNN models at your professional project or personal initiatives by working on complex image and video datasets.What you will learn

From CNN basic building blocks to advanced concepts understand practical areas they can be applied to
Build an image classifier CNN model to understand how different components interact with each other, and then learn how to optimize it
Learn different algorithms that can be applied to Object Detection, and Instance Segmentation
Learn advanced concepts like attention mechanisms for CNN to improve prediction accuracy
Understand transfer learning and implement award-winning CNN architectures like AlexNet, VGG, GoogLeNet, ResNet and more
Understand the working of generative adversarial networks and how it can create new, unseen images

Who this book is for

This book is for data scientists, machine learning and deep learning practitioners, Cognitive and Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts who want to move one step further in building Convolutional Neural Networks. Get hands-on experience with extreme datasets and different CNN architectures to build efficient and smart ConvNet models. Basic knowledge of deep learning concepts and Python programming language is expected.

One stop guide to implementing award-winning, and cutting-edge CNN architecturesKey Features [*]Fast-paced guide with use cases and real-world examples to get well versed with CNN techniques [*]Implement CNN models on image classification, transfer learning, Object Detection, Instance Segmentatio...

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Mohit is a Python programmer with a keen interest in the field of information security. He has completed his Bachelor's degree in technology in computer science from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and a Master's in engineering (2012) in computer science from Thapar University, Patiala. He is a CEH, ECSA from EC-Council USA. He has worked in IBM, Teramatrix (Startup), and Sapient. He currently doing a Ph.D. from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology under Dr. Maninder Singh. He has published several articles in national and international magazines. He is the author of Python Penetration Testing Essentials, Python: Penetration Testing for Developers and Learn Python in 7 days, also by Packt. For more details on the author, you can check the following user name mohitraj.cs

Md. Rezaul Karim is a researcher, author, and data science enthusiast with a strong computer science background, coupled with 10 years of research and development experience in machine learning, deep learning, and data mining algorithms to solve emerging bioinformatics research problems by making them explainable. He is passionate about applied machine learning, knowledge graphs, and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). Currently, he is working as a research scientist at Fraunhofer FIT, Germany. He is also a PhD candidate at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Before joining FIT, he worked as a researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Ireland. Previously, he worked as a lead software engineer at Samsung Electronics, Korea.

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