If you are a software developer who wants to build scalable AI-powered algorithms, you need to understand how to use the tools to build them. This course is part of the upcoming Machine Learning in Tensorflow Specialization and will teach you best practices for using TensorFlow, a popular open-source framework for machine learning.
This course is part of the DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate
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About this Course
Course 1 of the TensorFlow Specialization, Python coding, and high-school level math are required. ML/DL experience is helpful but not required.
What you will learn
Handle real-world image data
Plot loss and accuracy
Explore strategies to prevent overfitting, including augmentation and dropout
Learn transfer learning and how learned features can be extracted from models
Skills you will gain
- Inductive Transfer
- Augmentation
- Dropouts
- Machine Learning
- Tensorflow
Course 1 of the TensorFlow Specialization, Python coding, and high-school level math are required. ML/DL experience is helpful but not required.
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DeepLearning.AI
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Exploring a Larger Dataset
In the first course in this specialization, you had an introduction to TensorFlow, and how, with its high level APIs you could do basic image classification, and you learned a little bit about Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets). In this course you'll go deeper into using ConvNets will real-world data, and learn about techniques that you can use to improve your ConvNet performance, particularly when doing image classification!In Week 1, this week, you'll get started by looking at a much larger dataset than you've been using thus far: The Cats and Dogs dataset which had been a Kaggle Challenge in image classification!
Augmentation: A technique to avoid overfitting
You've heard the term overfitting a number of times to this point. Overfitting is simply the concept of being over specialized in training -- namely that your model is very good at classifying what it is trained for, but not so good at classifying things that it hasn't seen. In order to generalize your model more effectively, you will of course need a greater breadth of samples to train it on. That's not always possible, but a nice potential shortcut to this is Image Augmentation, where you tweak the training set to potentially increase the diversity of subjects it covers. You'll learn all about that this week!
Transfer Learning
Building models for yourself is great, and can be very powerful. But, as you've seen, you can be limited by the data you have on hand. Not everybody has access to massive datasets or the compute power that's needed to train them effectively. Transfer learning can help solve this -- where people with models trained on large datasets train them, so that you can either use them directly, or, you can use the features that they have learned and apply them to your scenario. This is Transfer learning, and you'll look into that this week!
Multiclass Classifications
You've come a long way, Congratulations! One more thing to do before we move off of ConvNets to the next module, and that's to go beyond binary classification. Each of the examples you've done so far involved classifying one thing or another -- horse or human, cat or dog. When moving beyond binary into Categorical classification there are some coding considerations you need to take into account. You'll look at them this week!
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TOP REVIEWS FROM CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN TENSORFLOW
A really good course that builds up the knowledge over the concepts covered in Course 1. All the ideas are applicable in real world scenario and this is what makes the course that much more valuable!
If you are looking for a course to build up your ML/DL coding skills, this is a very interesting and easily explained course. Highly recommended for any learner in the field of DL/Computer Vision.
Nice course. Even though I have previously done some projects using CNN and multi-class classification still this course let me to have an insight to how these APIs work. Keep Up The Good Work!!!!!!
The course was fine sometimes I feel too easy. I would like to see more of the available options for the layers, such as padding, stride. filter size, mean average, batch normalization, etc...
About the DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate
TensorFlow is one of the most in-demand and popular open-source deep learning frameworks available today. The DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Professional Certificate program teaches you applied machine learning skills with TensorFlow so you can build and train powerful models.

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