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Adaptive Convolutional Neural Network and Its Application in Face Recognition

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Convolutional neural network (CNN) has more and more applications in image recognition. However, the structure of CNN is often determined after a performance comparison among the CNNs with different structures, which impedes the further development of CNN. In this paper, an adaptive convolutional neural network (ACNN) is proposed, which can determine the structure of CNN without performance comparison. The final structure of ACNN is determined by automatic expansion according to performance requirement. First, the network is initialized by a one-branch structure. The system average error and recognition rate of the training samples are set to control the expansion of the structure of CNN. That is to say, the network is extended by global expansion until the system average error meets the requirement and when the system average error is satisfied, the local network is expanded until the recognition rate meets the requirement. Finally, the structure of CNN is determined automatically. Besides, the incremental learning for new samples can be achieved by adding new branches while keeping the original network unchanged. The experiment results of face recognition on ORL face database show that there is a better tradeoff between the consumption of training time and the recognition rate in ACNN.

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Project supported by the Nature Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2014FM012, and No. ZR2014YL010), the Shandong Science and Technology Development Program (No. 2012GSF12004).

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  1. Information Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, 250014, China

    Yuanyuan Zhang

  2. School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China

    Dong Zhao, Jiande Sun & Wentao Li

  3. The Hisense State Key Laboratory of Digital-Media Technology, Qingdao, 266061, China

    Jiande Sun

  4. College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255049, China

    Guofeng Zou

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Zhang, Y., Zhao, D., Sun, J. et al. Adaptive Convolutional Neural Network and Its Application in Face Recognition. Neural Process Lett 43, 389–399 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-015-9420-y

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