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There are 4 modules in this 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 DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer 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 Developer 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.
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 with 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!
Introduction: A conversation with Andrew Ng•4 minutes
A conversation with Andrew Ng•1 minute
Training with the cats vs. dogs dataset•3 minutes
Working through the notebook•4 minutes
Fixing through cropping•1 minute
Visualizing the effect of the convolutions•1 minute
Looking at accuracy and loss•1 minute
Week 1 Wrap up•1 minute
8 readings•Total 23 minutes
Welcome to the course!•1 minute
The cats vs dogs dataset•10 minutes
About the notebooks in this course•5 minutes
What have we seen so far?•0 minutes
Join the DeepLearning.AI Forum to ask questions, get support, or share amazing ideas!•2 minutes
Lecture Notes Week 1•1 minute
Assignment Troubleshooting Tips•2 minutes
(Optional) Downloading your Notebook and Refreshing your Workspace•2 minutes
1 assignment•Total 20 minutes
Week 1 Quiz•20 minutes
1 programming assignment•Total 60 minutes
Cats vs Dogs•60 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
Looking at the notebook (Lab 1)•60 minutes
Augmentation: A technique to avoid overfitting
Week 2•6 hours to complete
Module details
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!
Demonstrating overfitting in cats vs. dogs•1 minute
Adding augmentation to cats vs. dogs•2 minutes
Exploring augmentation with horses vs. humans•1 minute
Week 2 Wrap up•1 minute
4 readings•Total 21 minutes
Image Augmentation•10 minutes
Start Coding...•10 minutes
What have you seen so far?•0 minutes
Lecture Notes Week 2•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 2 Quiz•30 minutes
1 programming assignment•Total 180 minutes
Cats vs Dogs with Data Augmentation•180 minutes
2 ungraded labs•Total 90 minutes
Looking at the notebook (Lab 1)•60 minutes
Image Augmentation with Horses vs Humans! (Lab 2)•30 minutes
Transfer Learning
Week 3•4 hours to complete
Module details
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!
Understanding transfer learning: the concepts•2 minutes
Coding transfer learning from the inception model•1 minute
Coding your own model with transferred features•2 minutes
Exploring dropouts•2 minutes
Exploring Transfer Learning with Inception•2 minutes
Week 3 Wrap up•1 minute
4 readings•Total 11 minutes
Adding your DNN•0 minutes
Using dropout!•10 minutes
What have you seen so far?•0 minutes
Lecture Notes Week 3•1 minute
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
1 programming assignment•Total 120 minutes
Transfer Learning - Horses or Humans•120 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 60 minutes
Applying Transfer Learning to Cats v Dogs (Lab 1)•60 minutes
Multiclass Classifications
Week 4•4 hours to complete
Module details
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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Laurence Moroney is the best. Before taking up the course, i didnt know anything about the AI or ML or Tensorflow. The concepts were explained in such a manner that anyone can learn Tensorflow.
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Excellent and detailed on how to create a convolutional neural network using TensorFlow as well as explaining how to solve problems such as low accuracy, overfitting and even improving the dataset.
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Well structures course. No matter your level of expertise you can learn from this course and implement models more professionally and improve answers accuracy using this course techniques.
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