Title
Design, analysis and application of a volumetric convolutional neural network.
Abstract
The design, analysis and application of a volumetric convolutional neural network (VCNN) are studied in this work. Although many CNNs have been proposed in the literature, their design is empirical. In the design of the VCNN, we propose a feed-forward K-means clustering algorithm to determine the filter number and size at each convolutional layer systematically. For the analysis of the VCNN, the cause of confusing classes in the output of the VCNN is explained by analyzing the relationship between the filter weights (also known as anchor vectors) from the last fully-connected layer to the output. Furthermore, a hierarchical clustering method followed by a random forest classification method is proposed to boost the classification performance among confusing classes. For the application of the VCNN, we examine the 3D shape classification problem and conduct experiments on a popular ModelNet40 dataset. The proposed VCNN offers the state-of-the-art performance among all volume-based CNN methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jvcir.2017.03.016
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Convolutional neural network,3D shape classification,ModelNet40 shape dataset,Unsupervised learning,Anchor vector
Journal
46
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1047-3203
0
0.34
References 
Authors
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaqing Pan110.70
Yueru Chen2193.50
C.-C. Jay Kuo37524697.44