#conv-net-version-3.1.0

Deep neural network frame (C++ / OpenCV).

To run this code, you should have

• a cifar-10 dataset( put "cifar-10-batches-bin" where this .md file is, you can get it from HERE, make sure to download the binary version which suitable for C programs);
• OpenCV 3.0.
• cmake

##Compile & Run

• Compile:

cmake .
make

• Run:

./cnn3

##Updates

• 3-channels images supported.
• Add Dropout;
• Local Response Normalization supported.
• Use log files dig deeper.
• Use second order derivative back-prop to alter learning rate.
• Jul 1: version 3.1.0 released
• NEW: Jul.13 OpenCV 3.0 supported, use dft to accelerate convolution

##Layer Config Description

• For each layer, there is a layer_name, a layer_type, and a output_format.
• There are currently 2 output formats: matrix (cv::Mat, CV_64FC1), and image (vector of cv::Mat, CV_64FC3).

####Input Layer

• batch size: the training process is using mini-batch stochastic gradient descent.

####Convolutional Layer

• kernel size: size of kernels for convolution calculation.
• kernel amount: amount of kernels for convolution calculation.
• combine map: amount of combine feature map, details can be found in Notes on Convolutional Neural Networks.
• weight decay: weight decay for convolutional kernels.
• padding: padding before doing convolution.
• stride: stride when doing convolution (For "VALID" type of convolution, result size = (image_size + 2 * padding - kernel_size) / stride + 1).

####Fully Connected Layer

• num hidden neurons: size of fully connected layer.
• weight decay: weight decay for fully connected layer.

####Softmax Layer

• num classes: output size of softmax layer.
• weight decay: weight decay for softmax layer.

####Non-linearity Layer

• method: sigmoid/tanh/relu/leaky_relu.

####Pooling Layer

• method: max/mean/stochastic.
• overlap: if use overlap pooling.
• window size: window size when using overlap pooling.
• stride: pooling stride.

####Local Response Normalization Layer

• alpha, beta, k, n: see ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.

####Dropout Layer

• dropout rate: percentage of zeros when generating Bernoulli matrix.

####Combine Layer

• for implementing GoogLeNet, TODO...

####Branch Layer

• for implementing GoogLeNet, TODO...

##Structure and Algorithm See my several posts about CNNs at my tech-blog.

##TODO *combine layer *branch layer

##GPU Version There's also a GPU version of this code which I used nVidia CUDA..

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