Computer Vision with Neural Networks

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A journey through pooling with Botie.

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Does a Feature's Exact Pixel Position Always Matter?

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If a handwritten stroke moves slightly, we usually still regard it as the same stroke. A feature map may change at several individual positions, though, and carrying every small positional change into the next stage can make recognition unnecessarily sensitive.

Sources for this history

Fukushima (1980), Neocognitron: A Self-Organizing Neural Network Model for a Mechanism of Pattern Recognition Unaffected by Shift in Position

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