Outperforming Google Cloud AutoML Vision with Tensorflow

There are hundreds of blog posts on machine learning and deep learning projects, and I've learned a lot from the ones that I've read. I wanted to add to this body of knowledge by discussing a deep learning side project that I worked on recently. I've shared the project code in a Github repo. Cloud detection in satellite images is an important classification problem. It's used heavily in the field of Remote Sensing, because clouds obscure the land underneath, and too many cloudy images in a dataset make it harder for a model to learn meaningful patterns.