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convolutional

convolutional

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Relating to a math operation used in computer models to find image patterns
  • adjective
  • /ˌkɒnvəˈluːʃənl/
  • Specialized
: convolucional
  • And what Jim and Dan did was actually train deep convolutional networks on the same sort of task that humans performed in in visual object classification.
  • convolutional neural
  • convolutional neural network

Examples

  • At the very end, if the task is classification, you have a stack of convolutional layers and pooling layers.

  • Specifically, we use the features from the last convolutional layer (conv5-4) of the VGGNet-19 (Simonyan and Zisserman 2015) as in Ma et al. (2015a).

    Academic text (2018)
  • Question from participant Where does a convolutional network fall in the scheme of things?

  • They're they're things that do convolutional networks over one thing or another.

  • It added a parameter to each channel in the convolutional layer in the convolutional block.

  • So picture like an Atari screen and that goes through a couple of sets of layers of convolutional neural network.

  • Deep features learned from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently been applied to numerous vision problems (Krizhevsky et al. 2012; Girshick et al. 2014; Long et al. 2015).

    Academic text (2018)
  • Convolutional neural networks can improve the accuracy of image recognition tasks significantly.

  • Researchers are exploring how convolutional techniques can enhance data analysis in machine learning.

  • The advancement of convolutional structures has revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence.

Surface Forms

convolutional positive

Morphology

convolutional = convolution (semi-transparent) = convolve + tion + al

The word transparently means 'relating to convolution', but the mathematical and machine-learning sense is specialized rather than everyday.

Etymology

Convolutional comes from the Latin parts con- ('together') and volvere ('to roll'), giving the idea of 'folding' or 'rolling' things together. In math and neural networks, a convolutional process 'rolls' one set of numbers over another to mix them and find patterns, so the name helps you remember it is a way to combine inputs to get new features.