03. Convolutional Neural Networks and Computer Vision with TensorFlow¶
So far we've covered the basics of TensorFlow and built a handful of models to work across different problems.
Now we're going to get specific and see how a special kind of neural network, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be used for computer vision (detecting patterns in visual data).
🔑 Note: In deep learning, many different kinds of model architectures can be used for different problems. For example, you could use a convolutional neural network for making predictions on image data and/or text data. However, in practice some architectures typically work better than others.
For example, you might want to:
- Classify whether a picture of food contains pizza 🍕 or steak 🥩 (we're going to do this)
- Detect whether or not an object appears in an image (e.g. did a specific car pass through a security camera?)
In this notebook, we're going to follow the TensorFlow modelling workflow we've been following so far whilst learning about how to build and use CNNs.
What we're going to cover¶
Specifically, we're going to go through the follow with TensorFlow:
- Getting a dataset to work with
- Architecture of a convolutional neural network
- A quick end-to-end example (what we're working towards)
- Steps in modelling for binary image classification with CNNs
- Becoming one with the data
- Preparing data for modelling
- Creating a CNN model (starting with a baseline)
- Fitting a model (getting it to find patterns in our data)
- Evaluating a model
- Improving a model
- Making a prediction with a trained model
- Steps in modelling for multi-class image classification with CNNs
- Same as above (but this time with a different dataset)
How you can use this notebook¶
You can read through the descriptions and the code (it should all run, except for the cells which error on purpose), but there's a better option.
Write all of the code yourself.
Yes. I'm serious. Create a new notebook, and rewrite each line by yourself. Investigate it, see if you can break it, why does it break?
You don't have to write the text descriptions but writing the code yourself is a great way to get hands-on experience.
Don't worry if you make mistakes, we all do. The way to get better and make less mistakes is to write more code.
import datetime
print(f"Notebook last run (end-to-end): {datetime.datetime.now()}")
Notebook last run (end-to-end): 2023-05-11 03:50:16.074113
Get the data¶
Because convolutional neural networks work so well with images, to learn more about them, we're going to start with a dataset of images.
The images we're going to work with are from the Food-101 dataset, a collection of 101 different categories of 101,000 (1000 images per category) real-world images of food dishes.
To begin, we're only going to use two of the categories, pizza 🍕 and steak 🥩 and build a binary classifier.
🔑 Note: To prepare the data we're using, preprocessing steps such as, moving the images into different subset folders, have been done. To see these preprocessing steps check out the preprocessing notebook.
We'll download the pizza_steak subset .zip file and unzip it.
import zipfile
# Download zip file of pizza_steak images
!wget https://storage.googleapis.com/ztm_tf_course/food_vision/pizza_steak.zip
# Unzip the downloaded file
zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile("pizza_steak.zip", "r")
zip_ref.extractall()
zip_ref.close()
--2023-05-11 03:50:16-- https://storage.googleapis.com/ztm_tf_course/food_vision/pizza_steak.zip Resolving storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)... 74.125.128.128, 74.125.143.128, 173.194.69.128, ... Connecting to storage.googleapis.com (storage.googleapis.com)|74.125.128.128|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 109540975 (104M) [application/zip] Saving to: ‘pizza_steak.zip’ pizza_steak.zip 100%[===================>] 104.47M 29.4MB/s in 3.6s 2023-05-11 03:50:20 (29.4 MB/s) - ‘pizza_steak.zip’ saved [109540975/109540975]
🔑 Note: If you're using Google Colab and your runtime disconnects, you may have to redownload the files. You can do this by rerunning the cell above.
Inspect the data (become one with it)¶
A very crucial step at the beginning of any machine learning project is becoming one with the data. This usually means plenty of visualizing and folder scanning to understand the data you're working with.
Wtih this being said, let's inspect the data we just downloaded.
The file structure has been formatted to be in a typical format you might use for working with images.
More specifically:
- A
traindirectory which contains all of the images in the training dataset with subdirectories each named after a certain class containing images of that class. - A
testdirectory with the same structure as thetraindirectory.
Example of file structure
pizza_steak <- top level folder
└───train <- training images
│ └───pizza
│ │ │ 1008104.jpg
│ │ │ 1638227.jpg
│ │ │ ...
│ └───steak
│ │ 1000205.jpg
│ │ 1647351.jpg
│ │ ...
│
└───test <- testing images
│ └───pizza
│ │ │ 1001116.jpg
│ │ │ 1507019.jpg
│ │ │ ...
│ └───steak
│ │ 100274.jpg
│ │ 1653815.jpg
│ │ ...
Let's inspect each of the directories we've downloaded.
To so do, we can use the command ls which stands for list.
!ls pizza_steak
test train
We can see we've got a train and test folder.
Let's see what's inside one of them.
!ls pizza_steak/train/
pizza steak
And how about insde the steak directory?
!ls pizza_steak/train/steak/
1000205.jpg 1647351.jpg 2238681.jpg 2824680.jpg 3375959.jpg 417368.jpg 100135.jpg 1650002.jpg 2238802.jpg 2825100.jpg 3381560.jpg 4176.jpg 101312.jpg 165639.jpg 2254705.jpg 2826987.jpg 3382936.jpg 42125.jpg 1021458.jpg 1658186.jpg 225990.jpg 2832499.jpg 3386119.jpg 421476.jpg 1032846.jpg 1658443.jpg 2260231.jpg 2832960.jpg 3388717.jpg 421561.jpg 10380.jpg 165964.jpg 2268692.jpg 285045.jpg 3389138.jpg 438871.jpg 1049459.jpg 167069.jpg 2271133.jpg 285147.jpg 3393547.jpg 43924.jpg 1053665.jpg 1675632.jpg 227576.jpg 2855315.jpg 3393688.jpg 440188.jpg 1068516.jpg 1678108.jpg 2283057.jpg 2856066.jpg 3396589.jpg 442757.jpg 1068975.jpg 168006.jpg 2286639.jpg 2859933.jpg 339891.jpg 443210.jpg 1081258.jpg 1682496.jpg 2287136.jpg 286219.jpg 3417789.jpg 444064.jpg 1090122.jpg 1684438.jpg 2291292.jpg 2862562.jpg 3425047.jpg 444709.jpg 1093966.jpg 168775.jpg 229323.jpg 2865730.jpg 3434983.jpg 447557.jpg 1098844.jpg 1697339.jpg 2300534.jpg 2878151.jpg 3435358.jpg 461187.jpg 1100074.jpg 1710569.jpg 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Woah, a whole bunch of images. But how many?
🛠 Practice: Try listing the same information for the
pizzadirectory in thetestfolder.
import os
# Walk through pizza_steak directory and list number of files
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk("pizza_steak"):
print(f"There are {len(dirnames)} directories and {len(filenames)} images in '{dirpath}'.")
There are 2 directories and 0 images in 'pizza_steak'. There are 2 directories and 0 images in 'pizza_steak/test'. There are 0 directories and 250 images in 'pizza_steak/test/steak'. There are 0 directories and 250 images in 'pizza_steak/test/pizza'. There are 2 directories and 0 images in 'pizza_steak/train'. There are 0 directories and 750 images in 'pizza_steak/train/steak'. There are 0 directories and 750 images in 'pizza_steak/train/pizza'.
# Another way to find out how many images are in a file
num_steak_images_train = len(os.listdir("pizza_steak/train/steak"))
num_steak_images_train
750
# Get the class names (programmatically, this is much more helpful with a longer list of classes)
import pathlib
import numpy as np
data_dir = pathlib.Path("pizza_steak/train/") # turn our training path into a Python path
class_names = np.array(sorted([item.name for item in data_dir.glob('*')])) # created a list of class_names from the subdirectories
print(class_names)
['pizza' 'steak']
Okay, so we've got a collection of 750 training images and 250 testing images of pizza and steak.
Let's look at some.
🤔 Note: Whenever you're working with data, it's always good to visualize it as much as possible. Treat your first couple of steps of a project as becoming one with the data. Visualize, visualize, visualize.
# View an image
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.image as mpimg
import random
def view_random_image(target_dir, target_class):
# Setup target directory (we'll view images from here)
target_folder = target_dir+target_class
# Get a random image path
random_image = random.sample(os.listdir(target_folder), 1)
# Read in the image and plot it using matplotlib
img = mpimg.imread(target_folder + "/" + random_image[0])
plt.imshow(img)
plt.title(target_class)
plt.axis("off");
print(f"Image shape: {img.shape}") # show the shape of the image
return img
# View a random image from the training dataset
img = view_random_image(target_dir="pizza_steak/train/",
target_class="steak")
Image shape: (512, 512, 3)
After going through a dozen or so images from the different classes, you can start to get an idea of what we're working with.
The entire Food101 dataset comprises of similar images from 101 different classes.
You might've noticed we've been printing the image shape alongside the plotted image.
This is because the way our computer sees the image is in the form of a big array (tensor).
# View the img (actually just a big array/tensor)
img
array([[[ 80, 32, 18],
[ 77, 29, 15],
[ 75, 27, 13],
...,
[189, 163, 130],
[196, 170, 137],
[192, 166, 133]],
[[ 79, 31, 17],
[ 76, 28, 14],
[ 74, 26, 12],
...,
[155, 129, 96],
[177, 151, 118],
[192, 166, 133]],
[[ 78, 30, 16],
[ 76, 28, 14],
[ 74, 26, 12],
...,
[135, 109, 76],
[149, 123, 90],
[170, 144, 111]],
...,
[[ 52, 18, 17],
[ 63, 29, 28],
[ 53, 19, 17],
...,
[253, 237, 203],
[253, 237, 203],
[253, 237, 203]],
[[ 53, 22, 20],
[ 63, 32, 30],
[ 56, 22, 21],
...,
[253, 237, 203],
[253, 237, 203],
[252, 236, 202]],
[[ 41, 10, 8],
[ 62, 31, 29],
[ 53, 19, 18],
...,
[253, 237, 203],
[252, 236, 202],
[252, 236, 202]]], dtype=uint8)
# View the image shape
img.shape # returns (width, height, colour channels)
(512, 512, 3)
Looking at the image shape more closely, you'll see it's in the form (Width, Height, Colour Channels).
In our case, the width and height vary but because we're dealing with colour images, the colour channels value is always 3. This is for different values of red, green and blue (RGB) pixels.
You'll notice all of the values in the img array are between 0 and 255. This is because that's the possible range for red, green and blue values.
For example, a pixel with a value red=0, green=0, blue=255 will look very blue.
So when we build a model to differentiate between our images of pizza and steak, it will be finding patterns in these different pixel values which determine what each class looks like.
🔑 Note: As we've discussed before, many machine learning models, including neural networks prefer the values they work with to be between 0 and 1. Knowing this, one of the most common preprocessing steps for working with images is to scale (also referred to as normalize) their pixel values by dividing the image arrays by 255.
# Get all the pixel values between 0 & 1
img/255.
array([[[0.31372549, 0.1254902 , 0.07058824],
[0.30196078, 0.11372549, 0.05882353],
[0.29411765, 0.10588235, 0.05098039],
...,
[0.74117647, 0.63921569, 0.50980392],
[0.76862745, 0.66666667, 0.5372549 ],
[0.75294118, 0.65098039, 0.52156863]],
[[0.30980392, 0.12156863, 0.06666667],
[0.29803922, 0.10980392, 0.05490196],
[0.29019608, 0.10196078, 0.04705882],
...,
[0.60784314, 0.50588235, 0.37647059],
[0.69411765, 0.59215686, 0.4627451 ],
[0.75294118, 0.65098039, 0.52156863]],
[[0.30588235, 0.11764706, 0.0627451 ],
[0.29803922, 0.10980392, 0.05490196],
[0.29019608, 0.10196078, 0.04705882],
...,
[0.52941176, 0.42745098, 0.29803922],
[0.58431373, 0.48235294, 0.35294118],
[0.66666667, 0.56470588, 0.43529412]],
...,
[[0.20392157, 0.07058824, 0.06666667],
[0.24705882, 0.11372549, 0.10980392],
[0.20784314, 0.0745098 , 0.06666667],
...,
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843],
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843],
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843]],
[[0.20784314, 0.08627451, 0.07843137],
[0.24705882, 0.1254902 , 0.11764706],
[0.21960784, 0.08627451, 0.08235294],
...,
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843],
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843],
[0.98823529, 0.9254902 , 0.79215686]],
[[0.16078431, 0.03921569, 0.03137255],
[0.24313725, 0.12156863, 0.11372549],
[0.20784314, 0.0745098 , 0.07058824],
...,
[0.99215686, 0.92941176, 0.79607843],
[0.98823529, 0.9254902 , 0.79215686],
[0.98823529, 0.9254902 , 0.79215686]]])
A (typical) architecture of a convolutional neural network¶
Convolutional neural networks are no different to other kinds of deep learning neural networks in the fact they can be created in many different ways. What you see below are some components you'd expect to find in a traditional CNN.
Components of a convolutional neural network:
| Hyperparameter/Layer type | What does it do? | Typical values |
|---|---|---|
| Input image(s) | Target images you'd like to discover patterns in | Whatever you can take a photo (or video) of |
| Input layer | Takes in target images and preprocesses them for further layers | input_shape = [batch_size, image_height, image_width, color_channels] |
| Convolution layer | Extracts/learns the most important features from target images | Multiple, can create with tf.keras.layers.ConvXD (X can be multiple values) |
| Hidden activation | Adds non-linearity to learned features (non-straight lines) | Usually ReLU (tf.keras.activations.relu) |
| Pooling layer | Reduces the dimensionality of learned image features | Average (tf.keras.layers.AvgPool2D) or Max (tf.keras.layers.MaxPool2D) |
| Fully connected layer | Further refines learned features from convolution layers | tf.keras.layers.Dense |
| Output layer | Takes learned features and outputs them in shape of target labels | output_shape = [number_of_classes] (e.g. 3 for pizza, steak or sushi) |
| Output activation | Adds non-linearities to output layer | tf.keras.activations.sigmoid (binary classification) or tf.keras.activations.softmax |
How they stack together:
A simple example of how you might stack together the above layers into a convolutional neural network. Note the convolutional and pooling layers can often be arranged and rearranged into many different formations.
An end-to-end example¶
We've checked out our data and found there's 750 training images, as well as 250 test images per class and they're all of various different shapes.
It's time to jump straight in the deep end.
Reading the original dataset authors paper, we see they used a Random Forest machine learning model and averaged 50.76% accuracy at predicting what different foods different images had in them.
From now on, that 50.76% will be our baseline.
🔑 Note: A baseline is a score or evaluation metric you want to try and beat. Usually you'll start with a simple model, create a baseline and try to beat it by increasing the complexity of the model. A really fun way to learn machine learning is to find some kind of modelling paper with a published result and try to beat it.
The code in the following cell replicates and end-to-end way to model our pizza_steak dataset with a convolutional neural network (CNN) using the components listed above.
There will be a bunch of things you might not recognize but step through the code yourself and see if you can figure out what it's doing.
We'll go through each of the steps later on in the notebook.
For reference, the model we're using replicates TinyVGG, the computer vision architecture which fuels the CNN explainer webpage.
📖 Resource: The architecture we're using below is a scaled-down version of VGG-16, a convolutional neural network which came 2nd in the 2014 ImageNet classification competition.
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.image import ImageDataGenerator
# Set the seed
tf.random.set_seed(42)
# Preprocess data (get all of the pixel values between 1 and 0, also called scaling/normalization)
train_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255)
valid_datagen = ImageDataGenerator(rescale=1./255)
# Setup the train and test directories
train_dir = "pizza_steak/train/"
test_dir = "pizza_steak/test/"
# Import data from directories and turn it into batches
train_data = train_datagen.flow_from_directory(train_dir,
batch_size=32, # number of images to process at a time
target_size=(224, 224), # convert all images to be 224 x 224
class_mode="binary", # type of problem we're working on
seed=42)
valid_data = valid_datagen.flow_from_directory(test_dir,
batch_size=32,
target_size=(224, 224),
class_mode="binary",
seed=42)
# Create a CNN model (same as Tiny VGG - https://poloclub.github.io/cnn-explainer/)
model_1 = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(filters=10,
kernel_size=3, # can also be (3, 3)
activation="relu",
input_shape=(224, 224, 3)), # first layer specifies input shape (height, width, colour channels)
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(10, 3, activation="relu"),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPool2D(pool_size=2, # pool_size can also be (2, 2)
padding="valid"), # padding can also be 'same'
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(10, 3, activation="relu"),
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(10, 3, activation="relu"), # activation='relu' == tf.keras.layers.Activations(tf.nn.relu)
tf.keras.layers.MaxPool2D(2),
tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(1, activation="sigmoid") # binary activation output
])
# Compile the model
model_1.compile(loss="binary_crossentropy",
optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(),
metrics=["accuracy"])
# Fit the model
history_1 = model_1.fit(train_data,
epochs=5,
steps_per_epoch=len(train_data),
validation_data=valid_data,
validation_steps=len(valid_data))
Found 1500 images belonging to 2 classes. Found 500 images belonging to 2 classes. Epoch 1/5 47/47 [==============================] - 23s 209ms/step - loss: 0.5981 - accuracy: 0.6773 - val_loss: 0.4158 - val_accuracy: 0.8060 Epoch 2/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 194ms/step - loss: 0.4584 - accuracy: 0.7967 - val_loss: 0.3675 - val_accuracy: 0.8500 Epoch 3/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 192ms/step - loss: 0.4656 - accuracy: 0.7893 - val_loss: 0.4424 - val_accuracy: 0.7940 Epoch 4/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 192ms/step - loss: 0.4098 - accuracy: 0.8380 - val_loss: 0.3485 - val_accuracy: 0.8780 Epoch 5/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 191ms/step - loss: 0.3708 - accuracy: 0.8453 - val_loss: 0.3162 - val_accuracy: 0.8820
🤔 Note: If the cell above takes more than ~12 seconds per epoch to run, you might not be using a GPU accelerator. If you're using a Colab notebook, you can access a GPU accelerator by going to Runtime -> Change Runtime Type -> Hardware Accelerator and select "GPU". After doing so, you might have to rerun all of the above cells as changing the runtime type causes Colab to have to reset.
Nice! After 5 epochs, our model beat the baseline score of 50.76% accuracy (our model got ~85% accuaracy on the training set and ~85% accuracy on the test set).
However, our model only went through a binary classificaiton problem rather than all of the 101 classes in the Food101 dataset, so we can't directly compare these metrics. That being said, the results so far show that our model is learning something.
🛠 Practice: Step through each of the main blocks of code in the cell above, what do you think each is doing? It's okay if you're not sure, we'll go through this soon. In the meantime, spend 10-minutes playing around the incredible CNN explainer website. What do you notice about the layer names at the top of the webpage?
Since we've already fit a model, let's check out its architecture.
# Check out the layers in our model
model_1.summary()
Model: "sequential"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
conv2d (Conv2D) (None, 222, 222, 10) 280
conv2d_1 (Conv2D) (None, 220, 220, 10) 910
max_pooling2d (MaxPooling2D (None, 110, 110, 10) 0
)
conv2d_2 (Conv2D) (None, 108, 108, 10) 910
conv2d_3 (Conv2D) (None, 106, 106, 10) 910
max_pooling2d_1 (MaxPooling (None, 53, 53, 10) 0
2D)
flatten (Flatten) (None, 28090) 0
dense (Dense) (None, 1) 28091
=================================================================
Total params: 31,101
Trainable params: 31,101
Non-trainable params: 0
_________________________________________________________________
What do you notice about the names of model_1's layers and the layer names at the top of the CNN explainer website?
I'll let you in on a little secret: we've replicated the exact architecture they use for their model demo.
Look at you go! You're already starting to replicate models you find in the wild.
Now there are a few new things here we haven't discussed, namely:
- The
ImageDataGeneratorclass and therescaleparameter - The
flow_from_directory()method- The
batch_sizeparameter - The
target_sizeparameter
- The
Conv2Dlayers (and the parameters which come with them)MaxPool2Dlayers (and their parameters).- The
steps_per_epochandvalidation_stepsparameters in thefit()function
Before we dive into each of these, let's see what happens if we try to fit a model we've worked with previously to our data.
Using the same model as before¶
To examplify how neural networks can be adapted to many different problems, let's see how a binary classification model we've previously built might work with our data.
🔑 Note: If you haven't gone through the previous classification notebook, no troubles, we'll be bringing in the a simple 4 layer architecture used to separate dots replicated from the TensorFlow Playground environment.
We can use all of the same parameters in our previous model except for changing two things:
- The data - we're now working with images instead of dots.
- The input shape - we have to tell our neural network the shape of the images we're working with.
- A common practice is to reshape images all to one size. In our case, we'll resize the images to
(224, 224, 3), meaning a height and width of 224 pixels and a depth of 3 for the red, green, blue colour channels.
- A common practice is to reshape images all to one size. In our case, we'll resize the images to
# Set random seed
tf.random.set_seed(42)
# Create a model to replicate the TensorFlow Playground model
model_2 = tf.keras.Sequential([
tf.keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(224, 224, 3)), # dense layers expect a 1-dimensional vector as input
tf.keras.layers.Dense(4, activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(4, activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')
])
# Compile the model
model_2.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy',
optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(),
metrics=["accuracy"])
# Fit the model
history_2 = model_2.fit(train_data, # use same training data created above
epochs=5,
steps_per_epoch=len(train_data),
validation_data=valid_data, # use same validation data created above
validation_steps=len(valid_data))
Epoch 1/5 47/47 [==============================] - 11s 197ms/step - loss: 1.7892 - accuracy: 0.4920 - val_loss: 0.6932 - val_accuracy: 0.5000 Epoch 2/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 191ms/step - loss: 0.6932 - accuracy: 0.5000 - val_loss: 0.6932 - val_accuracy: 0.5000 Epoch 3/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 189ms/step - loss: 0.6932 - accuracy: 0.5000 - val_loss: 0.6932 - val_accuracy: 0.5000 Epoch 4/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 199ms/step - loss: 0.6932 - accuracy: 0.5000 - val_loss: 0.6931 - val_accuracy: 0.5000 Epoch 5/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 196ms/step - loss: 0.6932 - accuracy: 0.5000 - val_loss: 0.6931 - val_accuracy: 0.5000
Hmmm... our model ran but it doesn't seem like it learned anything. It only reaches 50% accuracy on the training and test sets which in a binary classification problem is as good as guessing.
Let's see the architecture.
# Check out our second model's architecture
model_2.summary()
Model: "sequential_1"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
flatten_1 (Flatten) (None, 150528) 0
dense_1 (Dense) (None, 4) 602116
dense_2 (Dense) (None, 4) 20
dense_3 (Dense) (None, 1) 5
=================================================================
Total params: 602,141
Trainable params: 602,141
Non-trainable params: 0
_________________________________________________________________
Wow. One of the most noticeable things here is the much larger number of parameters in model_2 versus model_1.
model_2 has 602,141 trainable parameters where as model_1 has only 31,101. And despite this difference, model_1 still far and large out performs model_2.
🔑 Note: You can think of trainable parameters as patterns a model can learn from data. Intuitiely, you might think more is better. And in some cases it is. But in this case, the difference here is in the two different styles of model we're using. Where a series of dense layers have a number of different learnable parameters connected to each other and hence a higher number of possible learnable patterns, a convolutional neural network seeks to sort out and learn the most important patterns in an image. So even though there are less learnable parameters in our convolutional neural network, these are often more helpful in decphering between different features in an image.
Since our previous model didn't work, do you have any ideas of how we might make it work?
How about we increase the number of layers?
And maybe even increase the number of neurons in each layer?
More specifically, we'll increase the number of neurons (also called hidden units) in each dense layer from 4 to 100 and add an extra layer.
🔑 Note: Adding extra layers or increasing the number of neurons in each layer is often referred to as increasing the complexity of your model.
# Set random seed
tf.random.set_seed(42)
# Create a model similar to model_1 but add an extra layer and increase the number of hidden units in each layer
model_3 = tf.keras.Sequential([
tf.keras.layers.Flatten(input_shape=(224, 224, 3)), # dense layers expect a 1-dimensional vector as input
tf.keras.layers.Dense(100, activation='relu'), # increase number of neurons from 4 to 100 (for each layer)
tf.keras.layers.Dense(100, activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(100, activation='relu'), # add an extra layer
tf.keras.layers.Dense(1, activation='sigmoid')
])
# Compile the model
model_3.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy',
optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(),
metrics=["accuracy"])
# Fit the model
history_3 = model_3.fit(train_data,
epochs=5,
steps_per_epoch=len(train_data),
validation_data=valid_data,
validation_steps=len(valid_data))
Epoch 1/5 47/47 [==============================] - 11s 201ms/step - loss: 2.8247 - accuracy: 0.6413 - val_loss: 0.6214 - val_accuracy: 0.7720 Epoch 2/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 195ms/step - loss: 0.6881 - accuracy: 0.7300 - val_loss: 0.5762 - val_accuracy: 0.7140 Epoch 3/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 196ms/step - loss: 1.2195 - accuracy: 0.6860 - val_loss: 0.6234 - val_accuracy: 0.7320 Epoch 4/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 194ms/step - loss: 0.5172 - accuracy: 0.7893 - val_loss: 0.5061 - val_accuracy: 0.7600 Epoch 5/5 47/47 [==============================] - 9s 192ms/step - loss: 0.5041 - accuracy: 0.7833 - val_loss: 0.4380 - val_accuracy: 0.8000
Woah! Looks like our model is learning again. It got ~70% accuracy on the training set and ~70% accuracy on the validation set.
How does the architecute look?
# Check out model_3 architecture
model_3.summary()
Model: "sequential_2"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
flatten_2 (Flatten) (None, 150528) 0
dense_4 (Dense) (None, 100) 15052900
dense_5 (Dense) (None, 100) 10100
dense_6 (Dense) (None, 100) 10100
dense_7 (Dense) (None, 1) 101
=================================================================
Total params: 15,073,201
Trainable params: 15,073,201
Non-trainable params: 0
_________________________________________________________________
My gosh, the number of trainable parameters has increased even more than model_2. And even with close to 500x (~15,000,000 vs. ~31,000) more trainable parameters, model_3 still doesn't out perform model_1.
This goes to show the power of convolutional neural networks and their ability to learn patterns despite using less parameters.
Binary classification: Let's break it down¶
We just went through a whirlwind of steps:
- Become one with the data (visualize, visualize, visualize...)
- Preprocess the data (prepare it for a model)
- Create a model (start with a baseline)
- Fit the model
- Evaluate the model
- Adjust different parameters and improve model (try to beat your baseline)
- Repeat until satisfied
Let's step through each.
1. Import and become one with the data¶
Whatever kind of data you're dealing with, it's a good idea to visualize at least 10-100 samples to start to building your own mental model of the data.
In our case, we might notice that the steak images tend to have darker colours where as pizza images tend to have a distinct circular shape in the middle. These might be patterns that our neural network picks up on.
You an also notice if some of your data is messed up (for example, has the wrong label) and start to consider ways you might go about fixing it.
📖 Resource: To see how this data was processed into the file format we're using, see the preprocessing notebook.
If the visualization cell below doesn't work, make sure you've got the data by uncommenting the cell below.
# import zipfile
# # Download zip file of pizza_steak images
# !wget https://storage.googleapis.com/ztm_tf_course/food_vision/pizza_steak.zip
# # Unzip the downloaded file
# zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile("pizza_steak.zip", "r")
# zip_ref.extractall()
# zip_ref.close()
# Visualize data (requires function 'view_ran