In today’s omnichannel, highly digitized paradigm, where user expectations are rising with each passing day, the requirement of intelligent apps has become the need of the hour. Thanks to the technological advancements, machine learning, and deep learning techniques — they have laid the foundation for tomorrow’s intelligent apps.
In this blog, we will through some light upon the TensorFlow, Google's machine learning framework and its use cases in the mobile app development world.
Get Acquainted with TensorFlow
The concept of TensorFlow was given birth by the Google Brain team and it was named as DistBelief, built in 2011, whose foundation was laid on deep learning neural networks.
After its upgradation in 2015, its name changed to TensorFlow — an end-to-end open source platform that combined machine learning with deep structured learning models and algorithms, making use of them through a common symbol.
TensorFlow makes use of Python and many other programming languages ranging from R to Swift to JavaScript for development of mobile and web apps, thereby providing front-end API for further execution of the apps in C++.
The latest version of TensorFlow — 1.7.0, is designed with a focus on deep learning and moreover, to easily optimize, understand, and debug TensorFlow programs, the creators provided TensorBoard — a suite of visualization tools, paving the way for the developers to plot quantitative metrics on the graph and display additional data, such as images to pass through it.
The Use Cases of TensorFlow
Primarily used for understanding, prediction, classification, and creation, TensorFlow is an open source AI library that makes use of data flow graphs for the development of models.
Following are the use cases of TensorFlow:
- Sound or voice recognition
One of the most common uses of TensorFlow is in sound-based apps. If the data is appropriately fed, the app becomes capable to capture various audio signals, as mentioned below:
Audio Signals |
Purpose |
Voice Recognition |
Its main application is in UX/UI, IoT, and automotive industry |
Voice search |
Find its usage in telecom or mobile industry |
Sentiment analysis |
CRM makes the most use of it |
Flaw detection (engine noise) |
It gets perfectly fit in the automotive and aviation industry |
Android's Google Now, Siri for Apple, and Microsoft's Cortana are popular used cases. Another use of voice recognition is identifying languages.
- Time series
The time series algorithm of TensorFlow allows forecasting non-specific time period and helps in the generation of alternative versions.
The common use is ‘recommendation.’ Big giants like Amazon, Facebook, and Netflix utilize this robust algorithm to analyze customer inter-activities for making a comparison with other users, thereby helping the target customers in their buying journey.
The recommendations get evolved with time. For instance, recommending movies and TV shows on Netflix that a user may enjoy.
Accounting, security, IoT, finance, etc are some other fields that make use of it.
A Long Way Forward for TensorFlow and Machine Learning
Machine learning is on a continuous rise and has affected the ways we use mobile devices. Developing apps related to healthcare, social media sentiment mining, etc has been the way of the future. TensorFlow, Google's open source library, which caters to large-scale machine learning calculations has a bright future and is here to stay.
TensorFlow is the widely used library for building apps like Google Translate, Google Photos, and Google Search, it is the tool that has paved the way for the machine learning and artificial intelligence to extend far beyond their reach.