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Extension of Convolutional Neural Network with General Image Processing Kernels

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-01-23 v1 Machine Learning Image and Video Processing Machine Learning

Abstract

We applied pre-defined kernels also known as filters or masks developed for image processing to convolution neural network. Instead of letting neural networks find its own kernels, we used 41 different general-purpose kernels of blurring, edge detecting, sharpening, discrete cosine transformation, etc. for the first layer of the convolution neural networks. This architecture, thus named as general filter convolutional neural network (GFNN), can reduce training time by 30% with a better accuracy compared to the regular convolutional neural network (CNN). GFNN also can be trained to achieve 90% accuracy with only 500 samples. Furthermore, even though these kernels are not specialized for the MNIST dataset, we achieved 99.56% accuracy without ensemble nor any other special algorithms.

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@article{arxiv.1901.07375,
  title  = {Extension of Convolutional Neural Network with General Image Processing Kernels},
  author = {Jay Hoon Jung and Yousun Shin and YoungMin Kwon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.07375},
  year   = {2019}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures

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