Image classification in frequency domain with 2SReLU: a second harmonics superposition activation function

18 Jun 2020  ·  Thomio Watanabe, Denis F. Wolf ·

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks are able to identify complex patterns and perform tasks with super-human capabilities. However, besides the exceptional results, they are not completely understood and it is still impractical to hand-engineer similar solutions. In this work, an image classification Convolutional Neural Network and its building blocks are described from a frequency domain perspective. Some network layers have established counterparts in the frequency domain like the convolutional and pooling layers. We propose the 2SReLU layer, a novel non-linear activation function that preserves high frequency components in deep networks. It is demonstrated that in the frequency domain it is possible to achieve competitive results without using the computationally costly convolution operation. A source code implementation in PyTorch is provided at: https://gitlab.com/thomio/2srelu

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