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Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow

You're reading from   Hands-On Convolutional Neural Networks with TensorFlow Solve computer vision problems with modeling in TensorFlow and Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130331
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Araujo Araujo
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 Tzanidou Tzanidou
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 Burton Burton
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Preface 1. Setup and Introduction to TensorFlow 2. Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks FREE CHAPTER 3. Image Classification in TensorFlow 4. Object Detection and Segmentation 5. VGG, Inception Modules, Residuals, and MobileNets 6. Autoencoders, Variational Autoencoders, and Generative Adversarial Networks 7. Transfer Learning 8. Machine Learning Best Practices and Troubleshooting 9. Training at Scale 10. References 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data Imbalance


We have already seen the importance of data representation and distribution in tackling the problem of Bias and Variance. Another related problem we encounter is the unequal distribution of data among various classes in classification tasks. This is called data imbalance. For example if we have a binary classification problem and one of the classes has 50000 images and the other class has only 1000 images, this can lead to huge problems in the performance of the trained algorithm. We have to tackle this problem of imbalanced data by:

 

Collecting more data

Yes it is always better to make the class data distribution equal. Gather as much data as possible and populate the class with fewer samples. For this purpose you can search for databases over the internet which are similar to your problem and include these. Simple web searches can also bring many images uploaded by various sources. Sometimes you will see that the model performance does not improve with more data. This is an...

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