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Stochastic Activation Function Layers for Convolutional Neural Networks

Version 1 : Received: 14 February 2020 / Approved: 17 February 2020 / Online: 17 February 2020 (01:50:08 CET)

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Nanni, L.; Lumini, A.; Ghidoni, S.; Maguolo, G. Stochastic Selection of Activation Layers for Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors 2020, 20, 1626. Nanni, L.; Lumini, A.; Ghidoni, S.; Maguolo, G. Stochastic Selection of Activation Layers for Convolutional Neural Networks. Sensors 2020, 20, 1626.

DOI: 10.3390/s20061626

Abstract

In recent years, the field of deep learning achieved considerable success in pattern recognition, image segmentation and may other classification fields. There are a lot of studies and practical applications of deep learning on images, video or text classification. In this study, we suggest a method for changing the architecture of the most performing CNN models with the aim of designing new models to be used as stand-alone networks or as a component of an ensemble. We propose to replace each activation layer of a CNN (usually a ReLu layer) by a different activation function stochastically drawn from a set of activation functions: in this way the resulting CNN has a different set of activation function layers.

Keywords

Convolutional Neural Networks; ensemble of classifiers; activation functions; image classification; skin detection

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Computer Vision and Graphics

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