Trained an convoluted autoencoder. Now need help extracting the feature space - machine-learning

Question

I built an autoencoder using my own data set of about 32k images. I did a 75/25 split for training/testing, and I was able to get results I'm happy with.
Now I want to be able to extract the feature space and map them to every image in my dataset and to new data that wasn't tested. I couldn't find a tutorial online that delved into using the encoder as a feature space. All I could find was to build the full network.
My code:
> input_img = Input(shape=(200, 200, 1))
# encoder part of the model (increased filter lyaer after each filter)
x = Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(input_img)
x = MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
x = Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
encoded = MaxPooling2D((2, 2), padding='same')(x)
# decoder part of the model (went backwards from the encoder)
x = Conv2D(128, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(encoded)
x = UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = Conv2D(64, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = Conv2D(32, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = Conv2D(16, (3, 3), activation='relu', padding='same')(x)
x = UpSampling2D((2, 2))(x)
x = Conv2D(1, (3, 3), activation='sigmoid', padding='same')(x)
decoded = Cropping2D(cropping=((8,0), (8,0)), data_format=None)(x)
autoencoder = Model(input_img, decoded)
autoencoder.compile(optimizer='adam', loss='binary_crossentropy')
autoencoder.summary()
Here's my net setup if anybody is interested:
Model: "model_22"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
input_23 (InputLayer) (None, 200, 200, 1) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_186 (Conv2D) (None, 200, 200, 16) 160
_________________________________________________________________
max_pooling2d_83 (MaxPooling (None, 100, 100, 16) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_187 (Conv2D) (None, 100, 100, 32) 4640
_________________________________________________________________
max_pooling2d_84 (MaxPooling (None, 50, 50, 32) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_188 (Conv2D) (None, 50, 50, 64) 18496
_________________________________________________________________
max_pooling2d_85 (MaxPooling (None, 25, 25, 64) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_189 (Conv2D) (None, 25, 25, 128) 73856
_________________________________________________________________
max_pooling2d_86 (MaxPooling (None, 13, 13, 128) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_190 (Conv2D) (None, 13, 13, 128) 147584
_________________________________________________________________
up_sampling2d_82 (UpSampling (None, 26, 26, 128) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_191 (Conv2D) (None, 26, 26, 64) 73792
_________________________________________________________________
up_sampling2d_83 (UpSampling (None, 52, 52, 64) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_192 (Conv2D) (None, 52, 52, 32) 18464
_________________________________________________________________
up_sampling2d_84 (UpSampling (None, 104, 104, 32) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_193 (Conv2D) (None, 104, 104, 16) 4624
_________________________________________________________________
up_sampling2d_85 (UpSampling (None, 208, 208, 16) 0
_________________________________________________________________
conv2d_194 (Conv2D) (None, 208, 208, 1) 145
_________________________________________________________________
cropping2d_2 (Cropping2D) (None, 200, 200, 1) 0
=================================================================
Total params: 341,761
Trainable params: 341,761
Non-trainable params: 0
Then my training:
autoencoder.fit(train, train,
epochs=3,
batch_size=128,
shuffle=True,
validation_data=(test, test))
My results:
Train on 23412 samples, validate on 7805 samples
Epoch 1/3
23412/23412 [==============================] - 773s 33ms/step - loss: 0.0620 - val_loss: 0.0398
Epoch 2/3
23412/23412 [==============================] - 715s 31ms/step - loss: 0.0349 - val_loss: 0.0349
Epoch 3/3
23412/23412 [==============================] - 753s 32ms/step - loss: 0.0314 - val_loss: 0.0319
Rather not share the images, but they look well reconstructed.
Thank you for all and any help!

Answer 1

Not sure if I fully understand your questions, but do you want to get the resulting feature space for every image you trained on as well as others. Why not just do this?
Name your encoded layer in your autoencoder architecture as 'embedding.' Then create the encoder the following way:
embedding_layer = autoencoder.get_layer(name='embedding').output
encoder = Model(input_img,embedding_layer)