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MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision (arxiv.org)
3 points by mayava on Apr 19, 2017 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Instead of sliding one big filter over all channels at once, it filters each channel separately then mixes them, making image-recognition nets much lighter. Two simple knobs trade speed for accuracy, and the models kept high accuracy on ImageNet while running fast on phones.

Abstract · MobileNets: Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks for Mobile Vision Applications

We present a class of efficient models called MobileNets for mobile and embedded vision applications. MobileNets are based on a streamlined architecture that uses depth-wise separable convolutions to build light weight deep neural networks. We introduce two simple global hyper-parameters that efficiently trade off between latency and accuracy. These hyper-parameters allow the model builder to choose the right sized model for their application based on the constraints of the problem. We present extensive experiments on resource and accuracy tradeoffs and show strong performance compared to other popular models on ImageNet classification. We then demonstrate the effectiveness of MobileNets across a wide range of applications and use cases including object detection, finegrain classification, face attributes and large scale geo-localization.

Andrew G. Howard, Menglong Zhu, Bo Chen, Dmitry Kalenichenko, Weijun Wang, Tobias Weyand, Marco Andreetto, Hartwig Adam
arXiv:1704.04861 · cs.CV · submitted Apr 17, 2017
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