Caffe Deep Learning Framework vs. Keras

Caffe is only appropriate for some new beginners who don't want to write any lines of code, just want to use existing models for image recognition, or have some taste of the so-called Deep Learning.

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I would recommend it for use when anyone wants to quickly develop a neural network. Or if a user is solving any machine learning problem that includes deep learning. And this kind of problem will be like image recognition, face recognition, doing some text analysis using deep learning which includes LSTM or some other algorithm.

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• Caffe is good for traditional image-based CNN as this was its original purpose.

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• Implementing neural networks and deep learning models is easy with this.
• Data processing is easy with Python and Keras. Keras helps a lot and has a good collection of functions to do data processing.
• It has good integration with other devices like Android.

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• Caffe's model definition - static configuration files are really painful. Maintaining big configuration files with so many parameters and details of many layers can be a really challenging task.
• Besides imagine and vision (CNN), Caffe also gradually adds some other NN architecture support. It doesn't play well in a recurrent domain, so we have to say variety is a problem.
• Caffe's deployment for production is not easy. The community support and project development all mean it is almost fading out of the market.
• The learning curve is quite steep. Although TensorFlow's is not easy to master either, the reward for Caffe is much less than the TensorFlow can offer.

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• I didn't face any issue so far.
• The only thing, you can't modify everything in this. So it's not recommended for constructing highly optimised algorithms.

The reason for giving this much rating. 1. It makes my job really easy and fast. 2. Strong community support. 3. Overall cost.

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Keras have really good support along with the strong community over the internet. So in case you stuck, It won't so hard to get out from it.

TensorFlow is kind of low-level API most suited for those developers who like to control the details, while Keras provides some kind of high-level API for those users who want to boost their project or experiment by reusing most of the existing architecture or models and the accumulated best practice. However, Caffe isn't like either of them so the position for the user is kind of embarrassing.

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As Keras is the high level API, so using Keras, we don't have to be bothered by the low level TensorFlow complexity, and we can reduce a lot coding and testing efforts.

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• Since we stopped using Caffe before it can reach the production phase, there is no clear ROI that can be defined.

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• It helped me in learning the basic concept of deep learning by having hands-on experience.
• It has helped us to implement our NN with very little time.
• It doesn't give you the whole power to customize your neural network. If you want that then you have to shift to TensorFLow

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