Artificial Intelligence By Example

Dense layers

Dense layers are fully connected. This has been made possible by the reductions in size calculated up to here, as shown before.

The successive layers in this sequential model have brought the size of the image down enough to use dense layers to finish the job. Dense 1 comes first, as shown here:

Dense layer

The flattening layer produced 14 x 14 x 32 size 6,272 layer with a weight for each input. If it had not gone through the previous layers, the flattening would have produced a much larger layer, and the features would not have been extracted by the filters. The result would produce nothing effective.

With the main features extracted ...