Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

© Ekaba Bisong 2019

E. . BisongBuilding Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_35

35. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

Ekaba Bisong¹ 

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OTTAWA, ON, Canada

 

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are a specific type of neural network systems that are particularly suited for computer vision problems such as image recognition. In such tasks, the dataset is represented as a 2-D grid of pixels. See Figure 35-1.

Figure 35-1

2-D representation of an image

An image is depicted in the computer as a matrix of pixel intensity values ranging from 0 to 255. A grayscale (or black and white) image ...