Transfer Learning with EfficientNet for Image Regression in Keras - Using Custom Data in Keras

This is the Repo for my recent blog post: Transfer Learning with EfficientNet for Image Regression in Keras - Using Custom Data in Keras

There are hundreds of tutorials online available on how to use Keras for deep learning. But at least to my impression, 99% of them just use the MNIST dataset and some form of a small custom convolutional neural network or ResNet for classification. Personally, I dislike the general idea of always using the easiest dataset for machine learning and deep learning tutorials since this leaves many important questions unanswered. Adapting these tutorials to a custom dataset for a regression problem can be a daunting and time-consuming task with hours of Googling and reading old StackOverflow questions or the official Keras documentation. Through this tutorial, I want to show you how to use a custom dataset and use transfer learning to get great results with very little training time. The following topics will be part of this tutorial:

• use ImageDataGenerators and Pandas DataFrames to load your custom dataset
• augment your image to improve prediction results
• plot augmentations
• adapt the state-of-the-art EfficientNet to a regression
• use the new Ranger optimizer from tensorflow_addons
• compare the EfficientNet results to a simpler custom convolutional neural network