Last Updated on August 19, 2019 Convolutional Neural Networks are a powerful artificial neural network technique. These networks preserve the spatial structure of the problem and were developed for object recognition tasks such as handwritten digit recognition. They are popular because people are achieving state-of-the-art results on difficult computer vision and natural language processing tasks. In this post you will discover Convolutional Neural Networks for deep learning, also called ConvNets or CNNs. After completing this crash course you will know: […]

Last Updated on August 27, 2020 A popular demonstration of the capability of deep learning techniques is object recognition in image data. The “hello world” of object recognition for machine learning and deep learning is the MNIST dataset for handwritten digit recognition. In this post you will discover how to develop a deep learning model to achieve near state of the art performance on the MNIST handwritten digit recognition task in Python using the Keras deep learning library. After completing […]

Last Updated on September 13, 2019 Data preparation is required when working with neural network and deep learning models. Increasingly data augmentation is also required on more complex object recognition tasks. In this post you will discover how to use data preparation and data augmentation with your image datasets when developing and evaluating deep learning models in Python with Keras. After reading this post, you will know: About the image augmentation API provide by Keras and how to use it […]

Last Updated on August 27, 2020 Keras is a Python library for deep learning that wraps the powerful numerical libraries Theano and TensorFlow. A difficult problem where traditional neural networks fall down is called object recognition. It is where a model is able to identify the objects in images. In this post, you will discover how to develop and evaluate deep learning models for object recognition in Keras. After completing this tutorial you will know: About the CIFAR-10 object classification […]

Last Updated on August 27, 2020 Sentiment analysis is a natural language processing problem where text is understood and the underlying intent is predicted. In this post, you will discover how you can predict the sentiment of movie reviews as either positive or negative in Python using the Keras deep learning library. After reading this post you will know: About the IMDB sentiment analysis problem for natural language processing and how to load it in Keras. How to use word […]

Last Updated on December 11, 2019 Deep learning is a fascinating field of study and the techniques are achieving world class results in a range of challenging machine learning problems. It can be hard to get started in deep learning. Which library should you use and which techniques should you focus on? In this post you will discover a 14-part crash course into deep learning in Python with the easy to use and powerful Keras library. This mini-course is intended for […]