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About the Course

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. In Course 2 of the deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization, you will learn advanced techniques to improve the computer vision model you built in Course 1. You will explore how to work with real-world images in different shapes and sizes, visualize the journey of an image through convolutions to understand how a computer “sees” information, plot loss and accuracy, and explore strategies to prevent overfitting, including augmentation and dropout. Finally, Course 2 will introduce you to transfer learning and how learned features can be extracted from models. The Machine Learning course and Deep Learning Specialization from Andrew Ng teach the most important and foundational principles of Machine Learning and Deep Learning. This new deeplearning.ai TensorFlow Specialization teaches you how to use TensorFlow to implement those principles so that you can start building and applying scalable models to real-world problems. To develop a deeper understanding of how neural networks work, we recommend that you take the Deep Learning Specialization....

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MS

Nov 12, 2020

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!

RB

Mar 14, 2020

Nice experience taking this course. Precise and to the point introduction of topics and a really nice head start into practical aspects of Computer Vision and using the amazing tensorflow framework..

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By Todd R

Apr 2, 2022

I was glad they finally showed up how to do a classification involving multiple objects instead of just recognizing horses or humans, cats or dogs. Coursera is one of the few places to be exposed to the solution of such a recognition problem. I thought the final assignment required heavy python knowledge, but that wasn't explained in the course outline. Remember that the assignments should not take more than 1 hour to execute the program. I had a program that took four hours to read in 20000 plus csv data points. I wasn't doing the assignment correctly. The discussion forum helped me.

By Xiaolong L

Feb 20, 2021

In general a very good course. But it seems that the instructor could have put more work into the weekly projects. For example, the weekly project for the 3rd week is almost the same as that of week 2. Also, one of the week boasted that the project involves training on the full dogs vs cats dataset but it is actually still just a subset. I was able to run on the full data set by downloading and loading them manually. I can see that the platform has concerns on the computational resources usage, but it should at least be accurate on in the project descriptions.

By Lavie G

Mar 31, 2023

Really good explaining the concepts used in the course, but not explaining how certain things like activations or optimizers work. also in all of the models including in the assinments, it is never rxplained how the chosen values got chosen - why 512 nuerons specifically, or why should I use 'relu' activation (or what are even the other options or the meaning of it?)

For example, in the transfer learning assinment - how and why did we have to choose the 'mixed7' layer specifically? That stuff is completely missing from the course.

By Konstantinos P

Jun 23, 2023

A very decent course, well organized in terms of projects and assignments. Its structure was quite intriguing and made clear the fundumentals of Convolution Neural Networks. The connection with the previous course of this specialization was clear and helped by explaining more advanced concepts of Deep Learning and Image classification. Overall, I gained a deeper understanding of convolution on keras models in tensorflow and learnt how to implement models for Transfer Learning and Multiclass classification.

By Manutej M

May 20, 2021

Week 4 was a rather challenging exercise and was out of left-field compared to the pace of the other exercises. This last exercise felt more like a "final exam" There were several things not mentioned in depth in the class that could have aided in bolstering the understanding necessary for the labs and for the real world. The class can get a bit repetitive and narrow sometimes in its focus and perhaps that's for simplicity, but I believe people could benefit from more depth being taught in the course.

By João A J d S

Aug 3, 2019

I think I might say this for every course of this specialisation:

Great content all around!

It has some great colab examples explaining how to put these models into action on TensorFlow, which I'm know I'm going to revisit time and again.

There's only one thing that I think it might not be quite so good: the evaluation of the course. There isn't one, apart from the quizes. A bit more evaluation steps, as per in Andrew's Deep Learning Specialisation, would require more commitment from students.

By Anand H

Sep 12, 2019

One challenge i have faced is with deploying the trained models. I find very little coverage on that across courses. It's one thing to save a model.h5 or model.pb. It would be nice if you can add a small piece on deployment of these models using TF Serving or something similar. There is some distance between just getting these files outputted and deploying. TF documentation is confusing about some of these things. Would be nice if you can include a module on that.

By AbdulSamad M Z

Aug 1, 2020

Great course! Builds on the concepts of Course 1 in this Specialization although the course can be taken without having completed Course 1. Concepts are explained in a super clear and engaging way and the hands-on exercises give you the experience you need to become proficient. The course covers plenty of practical concepts including some pitfalls for practitioners to avoid, but the theoretical concepts are covered less than I expected.

By Mikhail C

Apr 6, 2020

Content was clear building upon each topic however the lab submissions need work. Most of the "write your own code" complexities and issues where around data wrangling, directories, and memory efficient code which was not too relevant to the main learning objectives. I spent 90% of the coding exercises fixing or waiting for the data prep functions instead of experimenting with the different layers, dropouts, augmentation values.

By Henrique G

Jun 24, 2020

The course is well-paced and the instructor provides good coverage on the main topics on Convolutional Neural Networks. I'd recommend watching Andrew Ng videos from the Deep Learning specialization for a better understanding of topics like dropout, transfer learning, and optimization methods. The final exam is quite difficult as you need a lot of trial and error to get things to work properly - just like the real messy world.

By Jennifer E

Jul 16, 2020

Whilst I very much enjoyed playing around with convolutional neural networks, transfer learning and using image transformation to augment standard convolution, this course lacked an proper introduction in how to use python and will require a course into python or a good python language reference book which should help you build the necessary functions for completing the tasks required. Otherwise, this was a great course!

By Bob K

Mar 29, 2020

As another reviewer mentioned, this course is much simpler than Andrew Ng's deep learning specialisation but even so it has it's uses. I'm taking it to prepare for the Google TensorFlow certificate and it's forcing me to learn more of the api.

Andrew Ng's course was how to implement

the theory from papers, whereas this course is how to use TensorFlow. Each has it's place, although the former is probably more valuable.

By Grzegorz G

May 18, 2021

Movies are short but essential and with practical knowledge. Quizzes are interesting and not obvious. Unfortunately, the weakest part of the course is the final tasks at the end of the week. They are poorly described, sometimes they do not even have specific requirements for what is the target result of your accuracy for that task. You learn about it when your tasks are declined during the process of grading!

By Tom G

Jun 6, 2020

Overall very helpful. I wish debugging on the jupyter notebook assignments was better and that it gave pop text descriptions, etc. Google collab is much better that way. I wish the assignments could use that environment instead. Also, the assignments us model.fit_generator which is now deprecated in TF 2.2. Would be good if the assignments were updated to use model.fit instead.

By Sourav S

Oct 27, 2020

The assignment in the last week was very poorly designed. Other than that, I really liked the course, especially the parts about augmenting data and using pre-trained models. Perhaps the course could cover more topics on how to use pre-trained models, the different kinds of pre-trained models available out there, and the specific applications in which they should be used.

By Danilo B

Aug 22, 2020

The course is very good, but coming from the Deep Learning Specialization, also offered by deeplearning.ai, it feels somewhat like a downgrade having 15 minutes of video for each week, while the other specialization had real extense and complete explanations with over 2h of video. I feel like 10min more of explanations going through the code would make a huge difference.

By Jakub P

Nov 15, 2020

Quite good basic overview of image classification in Tensorflow. After the course can implement basic convolutional neural network using data augmentation and transfer learning techniques. The tasks however are very basic and except for the last lab task do not provide enough challenge to be meaningful. One of the labs is a copy paste of the Introduction to AI one...

By Raman S

Jun 1, 2020

The grader memory availability does not match the one available to us during the exercise. as a result insufficient memory is shown as grader remarks whereas we do not face such a problem. This becomes hard to debug and is more of analysis, trial and error. Can be avoided if we also get the same type of warning when we create/update our notebook

By Cameron W

Sep 1, 2020

Course material was good. The only issue I found was that the graded exercises are graded by automated systems that have different requirements to the notebook environment used for development. This 'black box' strategy by Coursera makes some of the exercises difficult. If you don't have debugging skills with Python, don't attempt this course.

By Michael R

May 30, 2021

Solid and accessible instruction. Would be remiss not to mention inconsistency between instruction and current tensorflow codebase. Requires a lot of digging by the student to reconcile the instruction with the exercises, particularly in week 4. However, my intuition for tensorflow architecture is probably deeper because of that digging.

By Anubhav S

Apr 4, 2021

Short of words to describe this fabulous course by Laurence. Every concept is covered. However, would have liked him suggesting some extra resources like Tensoflow Playground, Hub, and stuff. The section on Transfer Learning could have used the newer syntax based on TF Hub. Otherwise, nothing to complain about. Top course.

By Alex S

May 23, 2019

Exellent tutorial for using Tensorflow and convolutional networks. Useful usage examples, interesting and challenging exercises. A few minor mistakes prevent five star grading. But please note that mistakes happen and we have to live with this :-). Nice work, looking forward for the next course of the specialization.

By Amit M

Apr 27, 2021

Interesting course. I can do the exactly what is being taught - no more no less. It is almost like we are being taught to solve specific problems rather than learn of the subject. Perhaps, it is the nature of the subject itself - there is no systematic learning - it just is. Learn what is done now and works.

By RUDRA P D

Jul 7, 2020

What I feel in this course is that, a lot of the exercises are much about file handling operations instead of CNN implementation. Also, in the exercises there are missing task allotments/comments.

I liked the explanation and implementation part of Transfer Learning, I think it's the best part of this course.

By Stefan B

Apr 9, 2020

The course gives you an eagle eye view of how to use keras tensorflow for convnets. While they lectures are good, they are very short. I would have loved to hear more about training and storing your own networks for transfer learning and a bit more on regularization. A bit too shallow and easy for my taste.