If you’ve been following along with this series of blog posts, then you already know what a huge fan I am of Keras. Keras is a super powerful, easy to use Python library for building neural networks and deep learning…

Many strategies used in machine learning are explicitly designed to reduce the test error, possibly at the expense of increased training error. These strategies are collectively known as regularization. —Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville (2016) In previous lessons, we discussed two…

Last week, we discussed Multi-class SVM loss; specifically, the hinge loss and squared hinge loss functions. A loss function, in the context of Machine Learning and Deep Learning, allows us to quantify how “good” or “bad” a given classification function…

A couple weeks ago,we discussed the concepts of both linear classification and parameterized learning. This type of learning allows us to take a set of input data and class labels, and actually learn a function that maps the input to…

We previously learned about the k-NN classifier — a machine learning model so simple that it doesn’t do any actual “learning” at all. We simply have to store the training data inside the model, and then predictions are made at…

In last week’s post, I introduced the k-NN machine learning algorithm which we then applied to the task of image classification. Using the k-NN algorithm, we obtained 57.58% classification accuracy on the Kaggle Dogs vs. Cats dataset challenge: The question…

Now that we’ve had a taste of Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks in last week’s blog post on LeNet, we’re going to take a step back and start to study machine learning in the context of image classification in…

So in last week’s blog post we discovered how to construct an image pyramid. And in today’s article, we are going to extend that example and introduce the concept of a sliding window. Sliding windows play an integral role in…

It’s too damn cold up in Connecticut — so cold that I had to throw in the towel and escape for a bit. Last week I took a weekend trip down to Orlando, FL just to escape. And while the…