Discover deep learning and computer vision with SAS! Deep Learning for Computer Vision with SAS®: An Introduction introduces the pivotal components of deep learning. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of how to build deep feedforward and convolutional neural networks, as well as variants of denoising autoencoders. Transfer learning is covered to help readers learn about this emerging field. Containing a mix of theory and application, this book will also briefly cover methods for customizing deep learning models to solve novel business problems or answer research questions. SAS programs and data are included to reinforce key concepts and allow readers to follow along with included demonstrations. Readers will learn how to: Define and understand deep learning Build models using deep learning techniques and SAS Viya Apply models to score (inference) new data Modify data for better analysis results Search the hyperparameter space of a deep learning model Leverage transfer learning using supervised and unsupervised methods

Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence that trains computers to interpret and understand the visual world. In recent years, computer vision has begun to rival and even surpass human visual abilities in many areas. SAS offers many different solutions to train computers to "see" by identifying and classifying objects, and several groundbreaking papers have been written to demonstrate these techniques. The papers included in this special collection demonstrate how the latest computer vision tools and techniques can be used to solve a variety of business problems.

Master machine learning with SAS Viya! Machine learning can feel intimidating for new practitioners. Machine Learning with SAS Viya provides everything you need to know to get started with machine learning in SAS Viya, including decision trees, neural networks, and support vector machines. The analytics life cycle is covered from data preparation and discovery to deployment. Working with open-source code? Machine Learning with SAS Viya has you covered – step-by-step instructions are given on how to use SAS Model Manager tools with open source. SAS Model Studio features are highlighted to show how to carry out machine learning in SAS Viya. Demonstrations, practice tasks, and quizzes are included to help sharpen your skills. In this book, you will learn about: Supervised and unsupervised machine learning Data preparation and dealing with missing and unstructured data Model building and selection Improving and optimizing models Model deployment and monitoring performance

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret, and emulate written or spoken human language. NLP draws from many disciplines including human-generated linguistic rules, machine learning, and deep learning to fill the gap between human communication and machine understanding. The papers included in this special collection demonstrate how NLP can be used to scale the human act of reading, organizing, and quantifying text data.

Foreword by Oliver Schabenberger, PhD Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer SAS Dive into deep learning! Machine learning and deep learning are ubiquitous in our homes and workplaces-from machine translation to image recognition and predictive analytics to autonomous driving. Deep learning holds the promise of improving many everyday tasks in a variety of disciplines. Much deep learning literature explains the mechanics of deep learning with the goal of implementing cognitive applications fueled by Big Data. This book is different. Written by an expert in high-performance analytics, Deep Learning for Numerical Applications with SAS introduces a new field: Deep Learning for Numerical Applications (DL4NA). Contrary to deep learning, the primary goal of DL4NA is not to learn from data but to dramatically improve the performance of numerical applications by training deep neural networks. Deep Learning for Numerical Applications with SAS presents deep learning concepts in SAS along with step-by-step techniques that allow you to easily reproduce the examples on your high-performance analytics systems. It also discusses the latest hardware innovations that can power your SAS programs: from many-core CPUs to GPUs to FPGAs to ASICs. This book assumes the reader has no prior knowledge of high-performance computing, machine learning, or deep learning. It is intended for SAS developers who want to develop and run the fastest analytics. In addition to discovering the latest trends in hybrid architectures with GPUs and FPGAS, readers will learn how to Use deep learning in SAS Speed up their analytics using deep learning Easily write highly parallel programs using the many task computing paradigms

Discover deep learning and computer vision with SAS! Deep Learning for Computer Vision with SAS(R) An Introduction introduces the pivotal components of deep learning. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of how to build deep feedforward and convolutional neural networks, as well as variants of denoising autoencoders. Transfer learning is covered to help readers learn about this emerging field. Containing a mix of theory and application, this book will also briefly cover methods for customizing deep learning models to solve novel business problems or answer research questions. SAS programs and data are included to reinforce key concepts and allow readers to follow along with included demonstrations. Readers will learn how to: Define and understand deep learning Build models using deep learning techniques and SAS Viya Apply models to score (inference) new data Modify data for better analysis results Search the hyperparameter space of a deep learning model Leverage transfer learning using supervised and unsupervised methods

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that develops algorithms that allow computers to learn from examples without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning identifies patterns in the data and models the results. These descriptive models enable a better understanding of the underlying insights the data offers. Machine learning is a powerful tool with many applications, from real-time fraud detection, the Internet of Things (IoT), recommender systems, and smart cars. It will not be long before some form of machine learning is integrated into all machines, augmenting the user experience and automatically running many processes intelligently. SAS offers many different solutions to use machine learning to model and predict your data. The papers included in this special collection demonstrate how cutting-edge machine learning techniques can benefit your data analysis. Also available free as a PDF from sas.com/books.

New to the second edition of this advanced text are several chapters on regression, including neural networks and deep learning.

Deep learning algorithms have brought a revolution to the computer vision community by introducing non-traditional and efficient solutions to several image-related problems that had long remained unsolved or partially addressed. This book presents a collection of eleven chapters where each individual chapter explains the deep learning principles of a specific topic, introduces reviews of up-to-date techniques, and presents research findings to the computer vision community. The book covers a broad scope of topics in deep learning concepts and applications such as accelerating the convolutional neural network inference on field-programmable gate arrays, fire detection in surveillance applications, face recognition, action and activity recognition, semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, aerial imagery registration, robot vision, tumor detection, and skin lesion segmentation as well as skin melanoma classification. The content of this book has been organized such that each chapter can be read independently from the others. The book is a valuable companion for researchers, for postgraduate and possibly senior undergraduate students who are taking an advanced course in related topics, and for those who are interested in deep learning with applications in computer vision, image processing, and pattern recognition.

FUNDAMENTALS AND METHODS OF MACHINE AND DEEP LEARNING The book provides a practical approach by explaining the concepts of machine learning and deep learning algorithms, evaluation of methodology advances, and algorithm demonstrations with applications. Over the past two decades, the field of machine learning and its subfield deep learning have played a main role in software applications development. Also, in recent research studies, they are regarded as one of the disruptive technologies that will transform our future life, business, and the global economy. The recent explosion of digital data in a wide variety of domains, including science, engineering, Internet of Things, biomedical, healthcare, and many business sectors, has declared the era of big data, which cannot be analysed by classical statistics but by the more modern, robust machine learning and deep learning techniques. Since machine learning learns from data rather than by programming hard-coded decision rules, an attempt is being made to use machine learning to make computers that are able to solve problems like human experts in the field. The goal of this book is to present a??practical approach by explaining the concepts of machine learning and deep learning algorithms with applications. Supervised machine learning algorithms, ensemble machine learning algorithms, feature selection, deep learning techniques, and their applications are discussed. Also included in the eighteen chapters is unique information which provides a clear understanding of concepts by using algorithms and case studies illustrated with applications of machine learning and deep learning in different domains, including disease prediction, software defect prediction, online television analysis, medical image processing, etc. Each of the chapters briefly described below provides both a chosen approach and its implementation. Audience Researchers and engineers in artificial intelligence, computer scientists as well as software developers.