Deep Learning & Computer Vision in the Microsoft Azure Cloud

This is the first in a multi-part series by guest blogger Adrian Rosebrock. Adrian writes at PyImageSearch.com about computer vision and deep learning using Python, and he recently finished authoring a new book on deep learning for computer vision and image recognition. I had two goals when I set out to write my new book, Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python. The first was to create a book/self-study program that was accessible to both novices and experienced researchers and practitioners -- we start off with the fundamentals of neural networks and machine learning and by the end of the program you're training state-of-the-art networks on the ImageNet dataset from scratch. Along the way I quickly realized that a stumbling block for many readers is configuring their development environment -- especially true for those wanted to utilize their GPU(s) and train deep neural networks on massive image datasets (such as ImageNet).