Summary of Key Features
The key features of CNN can be better understood in contrast to traditional multilayer neural networks. The following features are thought to be unique of CNN.
Local connectivity: Mimic visual cortexes containing neurons that individually respond to small regions of the visual field. It permits location-invariant features to be extracted at lower level layers, which can be assembled to understand complex features in larger scales.
Shared weights: It reduces the number of parameters to be learned and make the network more scalable and easier to train.
Multiple feature maps: Allow a rich set of features to be captured at different levels and scales.
Pooling: Often referred to as down-sampling, which results in a lower resolution version of the feature maps that are more robust to changes in the position of the features in the original image. It also captures the feature structure at a larger scale.
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