Image Recognition for Beginners using CNN in R Studio (Udemy.com)
Deep Learning based Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for Image recognition using Keras and Tensorflow in R Studio
Created by: Start-Tech Academy
Last updated April 2026
What you will learn
- Get a solid understanding of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Deep Learning
- Build an end-to-end Image recognition project in R
- Learn usage of Keras and Tensorflow libraries
- Use Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to make predictions
How it compares
Against the other 126 rated Udemy courses in Deep Learning on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 65% of them
- Reviews328#81 of 127 by number of reviews
- Length6.6 hoursshorter than 66% of them
- Last updatedApril 2026more recently than 78% of them
Course Description
You're looking for a complete Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) course that teaches you everything you need to create an Image Recognition model in R, right?
You've found the right Convolutional Neural Networks course!
After completing this course you will be able to:
Identify the Image Recognition problems which can be solved using CNN Models.
Create CNN models in R using Keras and Tensorflow libraries and analyze their results.
Confidently practice, discuss and understand Deep Learning concepts
Have a clear understanding of Advanced Image Recognition models such as LeNet, GoogleNet, VGG16 etc.
How this course will help you?
A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this Convolutional Neural networks course.
If you are an Analyst or an ML scientist, or a student who wants to learn and apply Deep learning in Real world image recognition problems, this course will give you a solid base for that by teaching you some of the most advanced concepts of Deep Learning and their implementation in R without getting too Mathematical.
Why should you choose this course?
This course covers all the steps that one should take to create an image recognition model using Convolutional Neural Networks.
Most courses only focus on teaching how to run the analysis but we believe that having a strong theoretical understanding of the concepts enables us to create a good model . And after running the analysis, one should be able to judge how good the model is and interpret the results to actually be able to help the business.
What makes us qualified to teach you?
The course is taught by Abhishek and Pukhraj. As managers in Global Analytics Consulting firm, we have helped businesses solve their business problem using Deep learning techniques and we have used our experience to include the practical aspects of data analysis in this course
We are also the creators of some of the most popular online courses - with over 300,000 enrollments and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones:
This is very good, i love the fact the all explanation given can be understood by a layman - Joshua
Thank you Author for this wonderful course. You are the best and this course is worth any price. - Daisy
Our Promise
Teaching our students is our job and we are committed to it. If you have any questions about the course content, practice sheet or anything related to any topic, you can always post a question in the course or send us a direct message.
Download Practice files, take Practice test, and complete Assignments
With each lecture, there are class notes attached for you to follow along. You can also take practice test to check your understanding of concepts. There is a final practical assignment for you to practically implement your learning.
What is covered in this course?
This course teaches you all the steps of creating a Neural network based model i.e. a Deep Learning model, to solve business problems.
Below are the course contents of this course on ANN:
Part 1 (Section 2)- Setting up R and R Studio with R crash course
This part gets you started with R.
This section will help you set up the R and R studio on your system and it'll teach you how to perform some basic operations in R.
Part 2 (Section 3-6) - ANN Theoretical Concepts
This part will give you a solid understanding of concepts involved in Neural Networks.
In this section you will learn about the single cells or Perceptrons and how Perceptrons are stacked to create a network architecture. Once architecture is set, we understand the Gradient descent algorithm to find the minima of a function and learn how this is used to optimize our network model.
Part 3 (Section 7-11) - Creating ANN model in R
In this part you will learn how to create ANN models in R.
We will start this section by creating an ANN model using Sequential API to solve a classification problem. We learn how to define network architecture, configure the model and train the model. Then we evaluate the performance of our trained model and use it to predict on new data. Lastly we learn how to save and restore models.
We also understand the importance of libraries such as Keras and TensorFlow in this part.
Part 4 (Section 12) - CNN Theoretical Concepts
In this part you will learn about convolutional and pooling layers which are the building blocks of CNN models.
In this section, we will start with the basic theory of convolutional layer, stride, filters and feature maps. We also explain how gray-scale images are different from colored images. Lastly we discuss pooling layer which bring computational efficiency in our model.
Part 5 (Section 13-14) - Creating CNN model in R
In this part you will learn how to create CNN models in R.We will take the same problem of recognizing fashion objects and apply CNN model to it. We will compare the performance of our CNN model with our ANN model and notice that the accuracy increases by 9-10% when we use CNN. However, this is not the end of it. We can further improve accuracy by using certain techniques which we explore in the next part.
Part 6 (Section 15-18) - End-to-End Image Recognition project in R
In this section we build a complete image recognition project on colored images.We take a Kaggle image recognition competition and build CNN model to solve it. With a simple model we achieve nearly 70% accuracy on test set. Then we learn concepts like Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning which help us improve accuracy level from 70% to nearly 97% (as good as the winners of that competition).
By the end of this course, your confidence in creating a Convolutional Neural Network model in R will soar. You'll have a thorough understanding of how to use CNN to create predictive models and solve image recognition problems.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and I'll see you in lesson 1!
Cheers
Start-Tech Academy
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
328 Reviews
Start-Tech Academy
Start-Tech Academy is a technology-based Analytics Education Company and aims at Bringing Together the analytics companies and interested Learners.
Our top quality training content along with internships and project opportunities helps students in launching their Analytics journey.
Founded by Abhishek Bansal and Pukhraj Parikh.
Working as a Project manager in an Analytics consulting firm, Pukhraj has multiple years of experience working on analytics tools and software. He is competent in MS office suites, Cloud computing, SQL, Tableau, SAS, Google analytics and Python.
Abhishek worked as an Acquisition Process owner in a leading telecom company before moving on to learning and teaching technologies like Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
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Reviews
By Eve on 1/4/2023
nice course, i think the author should upload all the codes used.
By Vaibhav Raj Singh on 11/19/2022
During the course I encountered with many interesting and new content like PERCEPTRON Protocol and I am new with the TENSORFLOW. So the whole experience was knowledgeable.
By Darryl Morgan on 8/21/2022
Great Course With Fun Projects To Get You Up And Running Learning Image Recognition Using CNN.
By Sébastien Lorrain on 7/6/2022
Very difficult to understand your accent, but the subtitles help cover for this. The course itself, especially within R Studio, is kind of messy. I would suggest for next courses, to segregate code with comments, to identify easily every section and what's its goal.
By Kollapudi Nagendra Dheeraj on 12/30/2021
Really good explanation, even though I was aware of the core concepts. I took this course to understand implementation in R apart from the popular Python. So the instructor didn't miss a beat over there. But in some places certain R function explanation can be improved.
By Kanagala Chaitanya on 3/8/2021
It's a course with detailed explaination from the scratch level and I love the examples that the instructor is giving to clarify the hard topics.
By Erika Tejeda on 11/2/2020
Lo fue, ha sido muy interesante, aunque al no contar con un equipo con buenas características es difícil hacer los mismo que el curso o seguirles bien el paso :(
By Edgar Benitez on 8/5/2020
Muy bueno, sigo con el problema de resolver casos de la vida real, no solo concursos para mostrar habilidades, sino para responder a necesidades reales...
By Luis Ayuso on 7/3/2020
I have enjoyed this webinar to use R with Keras, and to review CNN image classification . Many thanks.
By Shehzad Munir on 6/8/2020
it was very interesting topic & and this lectures help me understand CNN concept more clearly
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