I have spent years building computer vision pipelines, and I can tell you that YOLOv8 combined with KerasCV is a game-changer. It simplifies the process of building high-performance models while keeping your code clean and readable. In this tutorial, I will show you exactly how to implement object detection. We will move away from generic … Read more >>
When I first started training deep learning models for image classification, I often relied on the standard Cross-Entropy loss. It worked well enough, but I noticed the models struggled when the classes were visually similar. I discovered that Supervised Contrastive Learning (SupCon) is a game-changer for these scenarios. It helps the model learn to pull … Read more >>
I’ve often found that the best way for a model to “learn” an image is by trying to fix a broken one. Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is a fascinating technique where we intentionally hide parts of an image and ask an Autoencoder to reconstruct the missing pieces. I remember the first time I applied this … Read more >>
Over my four years as a Keras developer, I have spent countless hours debugging backpropagation gradients. It is often frustrating when gradients vanish or explode during deep network training. Recently, I started experimenting with Geoffrey Hinton’s Forward-Forward (FF) algorithm as a powerful alternative. It replaces the traditional backward pass with two forward passes, one with … Read more >>
If you have been building vision models with Keras, you likely know that Self-Attention is the “gold standard” for capturing long-range dependencies. However, after four years of scaling these models, I have found that Self-Attention often struggles with high-resolution images because its complexity grows quadratically with the number of pixels. Recently, I started using Focal … Read more >>
I have spent the last four years building deep learning pipelines, and one thing is clear: Vision Transformers (ViT) are incredibly powerful but often too bulky for real-time applications. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use Keras to distill the knowledge from a large ViT model into a much smaller, faster neural … Read more >>
Training deep learning models that generalize well to real-world data can be a real challenge. In my four years of working with Keras, I’ve found that supervised consistency training is a game-changer for model stability. This technique ensures that your model produces similar predictions even when the input data undergoes slight variations or noise. In … Read more >>
I have spent a lot of time working with Keras and deep learning models. One of the most interesting challenges is training models when you do not have enough labeled data. In my experience, self-supervised learning is the best way to handle this. It allows the model to learn useful features from images without needing … Read more >>
In my years of developing deep learning solutions, I have often faced the challenge of having a mountain of data but only a tiny fraction of it labeled. It is a common headache when you are trying to deploy a model in a new environment where the data looks slightly different from your training set. … Read more >>
In my four years of developing deep learning models, I have often found that the quality of input data determines the success of the model. If you are working with datasets like the Stanford Cars collection or satellite imagery of Chicago, you will notice that images rarely come in a uniform size. Computer vision models … Read more >>
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