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A Fast Learning Algorithm for Image Segmentation with Max-Pooling Convolutional Networks

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2013-02-08 v1

Abstract

We present a fast algorithm for training MaxPooling Convolutional Networks to segment images. This type of network yields record-breaking performance in a variety of tasks, but is normally trained on a computationally expensive patch-by-patch basis. Our new method processes each training image in a single pass, which is vastly more efficient. We validate the approach in different scenarios and report a 1500-fold speed-up. In an application to automated steel defect detection and segmentation, we obtain excellent performance with short training times.

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@article{arxiv.1302.1690,
  title  = {A Fast Learning Algorithm for Image Segmentation with Max-Pooling Convolutional Networks},
  author = {Jonathan Masci and Alessandro Giusti and Dan Cireşan and Gabriel Fricout and Jürgen Schmidhuber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1690},
  year   = {2013}
}
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