Convolutional Neural Networks (Coursera)

Offered by DeepLearning.AI,
Convolutional Neural Networks (Coursera)

This course will teach you how to build convolutional neural networks and apply it to image data. Thanks to deep learning, computer vision is working far better than just two years ago, and this is enabling numerous exciting applications ranging from safe autonomous driving, to accurate face recognition, to automatic reading of radiology images.

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You will:

  • Understand how to build a convolutional neural network, including recent variations such as residual networks.
  • Know how to apply convolutional networks to visual detection and recognition tasks.
  • Know to use neural style transfer to generate art.
  • Be able to apply these algorithms to a variety of image, video, and other 2D or 3D data.

Course 4 of 5 in the Deep Learning Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Foundations of Convolutional Neural Networks
Learn to implement the foundational layers of CNNs (pooling, convolutions) and to stack them properly in a deep network to solve multi-class image classification problems.

WEEK 2
Deep convolutional models: case studies
Learn about the practical tricks and methods used in deep CNNs straight from the research papers.

WEEK 3
Object detection
Learn how to apply your knowledge of CNNs to one of the toughest but hottest field of computer vision: Object detection.

WEEK 4
Special applications: Face recognition & Neural style transfer
Discover how CNNs can be applied to multiple fields, including art generation and face recognition. Implement your own algorithm to generate art and recognize faces!

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