The document discusses how TensorFlow, an open-source machine learning platform, is revolutionizing mobile applications by enabling intelligent systems through machine learning and deep learning techniques. It highlights TensorFlow's flexibility, advantages, and use cases in areas such as voice and text recognition, image processing, and time series forecasting, showcasing its implementation by major companies. TensorFlow's accessibility allows various users, including SMEs, to leverage data-driven insights to enhance productivity and customer experiences.

1. Bringing Machine Learning to Mobile
Apps with TensorFlow
In the new omnichannel paradigm, where multiple digital touch points are connected to
offer a seamless customer experience, the need for intelligent apps becomes essential.
Thanks to machine learning (ML) and deep learning techniques, this is now possible.
Nowadays, there are a lot of open-source software libraries for Artificial Intelligence
(AI) that have become popular. However, TensorFlow stands out from the competition.
TensorFlow is becoming a buzzword in ​machine learning​. Programmers are moving
towards TensorFlow to build and run deep learning systems. This makes deep learning
tools accessible to even SMEs.
The combination of big data and neural network algorithms of TensorFlow helps unlock
the value of data businesses. This improves productivity and offers an edge over the
competition. Machine learning with TensorFlow adds extraordinary power to ​Intelligent
mobile apps​.

2. What is TensorFlow In Machine Learning?
TensorFlow is an open-source machine learning platform based on deep learning neural
networks. It ​combines machine learning with deep learning​ algorithms and uses them
via a common symbol. It uses a simplified programming language, Python, to build
mobile apps. Python offers a front-end API and executes the apps in C++, a high
performing object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Its design enables more
people to generate intelligent AI systems.
For easy understanding, debugging, and optimization of TensorFlow programs, its
creators came up with TensorBoard, which is a suite of visualization tools. They allow
you to visualize graphs to plot quantitative metrics on executing the graph and display
additional data, such as images to pass through it.

3. Example: Coca-Cola, Airbnb, and Intel are some of the big brands that are
implementing AI technologies made in TensorFlow.
Why TensorFlow has Emerged as a Winner?
TensorFlow is considered a low-level toolkit for running complicated math. Listed below
are its advantages and disadvantages that shows its popularity:
Advantages of TensorFlow in Machine Learning
● It can be customized and is open-source.
● Its responsive build allows easy visualization of every aspect of a graph.
● Owing to its platform flexibility, parts of it can exist standalone, and others can be
merged.

4. ● When it comes to distributed computing, it is identifiable on both CPU and GPU.
● Machine learning algorithms allow you to compute several derivatives of values to
other values, thus leading to a graph extension.
● It offers advanced support for queues, asynchronous computation, and threads.
Disadvantages of TensorFlow in Machine Learning
● To operate, a proper understanding of machine learning, as well as advanced
calculus and linear algebra, is necessary.
● GPU memory conflicts with Theano (a Python library that permits defining,
optimizing, and evaluating mathematical expressions, involving multi-dimensional
arrays effectively) when imported in the same scope.
● Does not support OpenCL (Open Computing Language)
TensorFlow Use Cases
TensorFlow is an open-source AI library that utilizes data flow graphs for building
models. It is used for classification, perception, understanding, discovering, prediction,
and creation.
Following are the use cases of TensorFlow:
1. Sound or voice recognition
Sound-based apps constitute one of the most common uses of TensorFlow.

5. Through proper data feed, it is capable of capturing the following audio signals:
● Voice recognition — used in IoT, automotive, security, and UX/UI
● Voice search — used in telecom mobile manufacturing
● Sentiment analysis — ​used in CRM
● Flaw detection (engine noise) — used in the automotive and aviation industry
Sound-based apps are largely ​used in CRM​. For example, TensorFlow algorithms
assuming the role of customer service representatives can direct customers to the
required information, quicker than actual personnel.
Apple’s Siri, Google Now for Android, and Microsoft Cortana for Windows Phones are
the most common use cases of voice search. Identifying languages is another use of
voice recognition. Speech-to-text apps define snippets of sound in bigger audio files and
transcribe the spoken words as text.
2. Text-based applications
TensorFlow use cases also include text-based apps, including sentimental analysis
(CRM, social media), threat detection (social media, government) and fraud detection
(insurance, finance)

6. Identifying languages is a widespread use for text-based apps. Below are a few
examples:
Google Translate
It supports 100+ language translations and works on any app. It also includes
translating jargon into simple language.
Text Summarization
Google identified that through sequence-to-sequence learning, shorter texts can be
easily summarized. For example, producing news article headlines.
SmartReply
It generates automatic email responses quickly.
3. Image recognition
Image recognition​ recognizes as well as identifies people and objects in images, to
understand both the content and context better.

7. It is widely used across social media channels, in the telecom and mobile manufacturing
industries, for face recognition or detection, image search, motion detection, machine
vision, and photo clustering. It may also be used in the automotive, aviation, and
healthcare industries.
TensorFlow image recognition algorithms are capable of classifying and identifying
objects within bigger images. It is used in engineering apps, in determining shapes for
modeling purposes (for example, 3D space construction from 2D images), and by social
media for tagging photos (for example, Facebook’s Deep Face). For example, by
analyzing about 600+ images of trees, TensorFlow would be able to identify an
unknown tree.

8. This technology is popular in the healthcare industry too where its algorithms have the
capability of processing more information by identifying more patterns than humans.
Furthermore, computers are now able to review scans and detect illnesses better.
4. Time series
TensorFlow time series algorithms enable non-specific forecasting periods, and aids in
generating their alternative versions.
An everyday use case here is a recommendation. Leading companies such as Amazon,
Google, Facebook, and Netflix, can analyze customer interactivities through this
algorithm, and then compare it with other users to gauge a customer’s buying mindset.
These recommendations evolve with time. For example: offering customers gifts or
recommending TV shows they may enjoy.
Other uses are in the field of accounting, finance, security and IoT, government, etc.

9. 5. Video detection
TensorFlow is also used in motion detection, security, airports, real-time threat
detection in gaming, and UX/UI fields. Further, universities are working on large-scale
video classification datasets, such as YouTube-8M. This helps speed up research into
large-scale understanding video, transfer learning, representation learning, and domain
adaptation approaches, for video.
Other Uses
As TensorFlow is an open-source library, you can use it to build different machine
learning algorithms on it, such as decision trees or k-Nearest Neighbors. Below is an
ecosystem of TensorFlow.

10. As shown above, TensorFlow is well integrated and is dependent on GPU processing,
Python, and C++. It can integrate well with container software such as Docker, GitHub,
etc.
Conclusion
Machine learning is on the rise and has influenced the way we use our mobile devices.
Leveraging machine learning to build apps relating to healthcare, recommendation
engines for media, and social media sentiment mining, etc. in the future.
Being the most widely used library for apps like Google Search, Google Translate,
Google Photos, and many more, TensorFlow makes machine learning and artificial
intelligence extend beyond their reaches. Google’s TensorFlow, an open-source library
that caters to large-scale machine learning and numerical calculations, is here to stay.
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