acknowledgments

First, I’d like to thank the Keras community for making this book possible. Over the past six years, Keras has grown to have hundreds of open source contributors and more than one million users. Your contributions and feedback have turned Keras into what it is today.

On a more personal note, I’d like to thank my wife for her endless support during the development of Keras and the writing of this book.

I’d also like to thank Google for backing the Keras project. It has been fantastic to see Keras adopted as TensorFlow’s high-level API. A smooth integration between Keras and TensorFlow greatly benefits both TensorFlow users and Keras users and makes deep learning accessible to most.

I want to thank the people at Manning who made this book possible: publisher Marjan Bace and everyone on the editorial and production teams, including Michael Stephens, Jennifer Stout, Aleksandar Dragosavljević, Andy Marinkovich, Pamela Hunt, Susan Honeywell, Keri Hales, Paul Wells, and many others who worked behind the scenes.

Many thanks go to all the reviewers: Arnaldo Ayala Meyer, Davide Cremonesi, Dhinakaran Venkat, Edward Lee, Fernando García Sedano, Joel Kotarski, Marcio Nicolau, Michael Petrey, Peter Henstock, Shahnawaz Ali, Sourav Biswas, Thiago Britto Borges, Tony Dubitsky, Vlad Navitski, and all the other people who sent us feedback. Your suggestions helped make this a better book.

And on the technical side, special thanks go to Ninoslav Cerkez, who served as the book’s technical proofreader.