Deep Learning Workshop - Building CNN using Keras

Deep Learning Workshop with Will Lamond:

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Workshop Description:

Deep learning makes it possible to build products and services that understand images. For this workshop, we will discuss Keras, a popular and useful framework for building deep learning models. We will build a convolutional neural network that can recognize handwritten digits, and discuss how to tune pre-trained models to solve more complicated tasks without requiring millions of labeled examples.

Instructor Bio:

Will Lamond, is a data scientist at Wayfair working on the Visual Search feature.

Will is an enthusiastic computer scientist and software engineer who has a passion for solving interesting problems that improve people's lives. He thrives on being constantly challenged and improving his skills, amassing details about uncertain problem domains in order to make careful choices, and then using appropriate designs and technologies to execute those choices.

Prerequisites:

• Comfortable with supervised machine learning. If you know how to structure data to train a regression model, then you will be fine.

• Proficient with Python programming. You should know how to define functions, write loops and conditions, and install modules. Very advanced knowledge is not required.

• A computer with at least 4GB of memory. If you've bought your computer within the last ~4 years, then you are all set.

Before coming:

• Install Keras, tensorflow, HDF5, h5py, Pillow, and jupyter. A lot of people like using Anaconda for getting this stuff up and running. You can also use pypi.