Some popular deep CNNs

In this section, let's discuss popular deep CNNs (for example, VGG-18/19, ResNet, and InceptionNet) used for image classification. The following screenshot shows single-crop accuracies (top-1 accuracy: how many times the correct label has the highest probability predicted by the CNN) of the most relevant entries submitted to the ImageNet challenge, from AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al., 2012), on the far left, to the best performing, Inception-v4 (Szegedy et al., 2016):

Also, we shall train a VGG-16 CNN with Keras to classify the cat images against the dog images.

VGG-16/19

The following screenshot shows the architecture of a popular CNN called VGG-16/19. The remarkable thing about the VGG-16 net is that, instead of having so many hyper-parameters, it lets you use a much simpler network where you focus on just having convolutional layers that are just 3 x 3 filters with a stride of 1 and that always use the same padding and make all the max pooling layers 2 x 2 with a stride...