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Introduction to Convolutions with TensorFlow

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Introduction to Convolutions with TensorFlow

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Overview

A convolution is a filter that passes over an image, processes it, and extracts features that show a commonality in the image. In this lab you explore convolution filters. You learn what they are and how they work by processing an image to extract features from it! You also explore pooling, which compresses your image and further emphasizes the features.

Objectives

In this lab, you will learn how to:

  • Load and draw an image from scipy, an open source Python library used for scientific and technical computing
  • Create a filter as a 3x3 array and a convolution and see the effects on the image
  • Run a pooling to see how it affects the output

Prerequisites

Although this is a self-standing lab, to maximize your learning consider taking these labs before taking this one:

Setup

Before you click the Start Lab button

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  • Access to a standard internet browser (Chrome browser recommended).
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How to start your lab and sign in to the Google Cloud console

  1. Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a pop-up opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details panel with the following:

    • The Open Google Cloud console button
    • Time remaining
    • The temporary credentials that you must use for this lab
    • Other information, if needed, to step through this lab

  2. Click Open Google Cloud console (or right-click and select Open Link in Incognito Window if you are running the Chrome browser).

    The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.

    Tip: Arrange the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.

    Note: If you see the Choose an account dialog, click Use Another Account.

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After a few moments, the Google Cloud console opens in this tab.

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Open Vertex Notebook instance

For this lab, a Vertex Notebook instance configured with JupyterLab and many machine learning frameworks has been pre-provisioned for you.

Navigate to it and and open it:

  1. In the Cloud Console, navigate to Vertex AI > Workbench.

  2. Click on User-managed-notebooks tab.

  3. Click OPEN JUPYTERLAB next to the name of your pre-provisioned Vertex Notebook instance. It may take a few minutes for the OPEN JUPYTERLAB option to appear.

Navigate to lab notebook

  1. In your Vertex Notebook, navigate to the following directory:

training-data-analyst/self-paced-labs/learning-tensorflow/introduction_to_convolutions/

  1. Open CLS_Vertex_AI_Intro_to_CNN.ipynb
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  1. Continue the lab in the notebook, and run each cell by clicking the Run ( run-button.png) icon at the top of the screen. Alternatively, you can execute the code in a cell with SHIFT + ENTER.

Read the narrative and make sure you understand what's happening in each cell.

Click Check my progress to verify the objective. Run the notebook

Congratulations!

This concluded the self-paced lab, Introduction to Convolutions with TensorFlow. You launched the convolutions notebook and explored convolutions and pooling.

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Manual Last Updated February 13, 2024

Lab Last Tested November 1, 2023

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