Residual‐wider convolutional neural network for image recognition
Guoqiang Li, Wen‐Hua Chen, Chao Mu · IET Image Processing · 2020
Recent works show that the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) could be improved by making the network wider and introducing residual connections. For example, the Inception architecture is one of the classical models. However, the structure of the series of Inception is complex, and there are more convolution layers and existing redundant image feature information. In order to further improve the performance and observability of CNNs, a novel type of network structure based on two modules, wider module and residual module, is proposed to make full advantage of the information of the image and learn more abundant features in this study, which is called residual‐wider network (R‐WN). The structure of R‐WN is easy to understand and adopts modular design method. Experiential results demonstrate that the proposed R‐WN with optimal structure and much fewer convolution layers could achieve much better image recognition results on four classical open data sets (MNIST, CIFAR10, SVHN, and Oxford Flowers 17).