Example of a deep convolutional network with Keras and data augmentation

In this example, we are going to use the Fashion MNIST dataset, which was freely provided by Zalando as a more difficult replacement for the standard MNIST dataset. In this case, instead of handwritten digits, there are greyscale photos of different articles of clothing. An example of a few samples is shown in the following screenshot:

However, in this case, we want to employ a utility class provided by Keras (ImageDataGenerator) in order to create a data-augmented sample set to improve the generalization ability of the deep convolutional network. This class allows us ...

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