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Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers
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Applied Machine Learning and AI for Engineers

by Jeff Prosise
November 2022
Intermediate to advanced
425 pages
11h 25m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 10. Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

Computer vision is a branch of deep learning in which computers discern information from images. Real-world uses include identifying objects in photos, removing inappropriate images from social media sites, counting the cars in line at a tollbooth, and recognizing faces in photos. Computer-vision models can even be combined with natural language processing (NLP) models to caption photos. I snapped a photo while on vacation and asked Azure’s Computer Vision service to caption it. The result is shown in Figure 10-1. It’s somewhat remarkable given that no human intervention was required.

Figure 10-1. “A body of water with a dock and a building in the background”—Azure AI

The field of computer vision has advanced rapidly in recent years, mostly due to convolutional neural networks, also known as CNNs or ConvNets. In 2012, an eight-layer CNN called AlexNet outperformed traditional machine learning models entered in the annual ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) by achieving an error rate of 15.3% when identifying objects in photos. In 2015, ResNet-152 featuring a whopping 152 layers won the challenge with an error rate of just 3.5%, which exceeds a human’s ability to classify images featured in the competition.

CNNs are magical because they treat images as images rather than just arrays of pixel ...

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