How to write Inception module: understanding and coding with Keras

Abstract

This article covers the basic understanding and coding of Inception module.
GoogLeNet, which is composed by stacking Inception modules, achieved the state-of-the-art in ILSVRC 2014. And probably, many people already touched the models which have the name “Inception” by fine-tuning. Here, on this article, I'll deal with the Inception module.
To write the model, I'll use Keras with Python.
To deepen your knowledge, you can use the following paper.

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842

InceptionV3 Fine-tuning model: the architecture and how to make

Overview

InceptionV3 is one of the models to classify images. We can easily use it from TensorFlow or Keras.
On this article, I’ll check the architecture of it and try to make fine-tuning model.

There are some image classification models we can use for fine-tuning.
Those model’s weights are already trained and by small steps, you can make models for your own data.

About the fine-tuning itself, please check the followings.

• How to make Fine tuning model by Keras
• VGG19 Fine-tuning model

Or TensorFlow and Keras have nice documents of fine-tuning.

From TensorFlow

• How to Retrain Inception’s Final Layer for New Categories

From Keras

• Applications

The pragmatic procedure of making CNN model

Overview

On the image classification modeling, you need to understand how good your model is, meaning not absolute accuracy itself but relative meaning of the accuracy.

This is the example. Your first trial model's validation accuracy is 0.6. How do you think about it?
Without knowing the unique label number, ratio, and the data's difficulty, only answer you can return is "I don't know".
To evaluate the model, not only the absolute accuracy but also the base score to compare with are necessary.

If the modeling trial and error don't take much time, you can feel the scale of goodness and accuracy by many trial samples. But usually image classification model takes much time to make themselves.
How do we do the shortcut?

How to use Inception v3

Low cost image classification by CNN, convolutional neural network

Overview

These days, CNN(convolutional neural network) is almost regarded as the best answer to classify images.
But it has many rules.

• it needs huge amount of images
• it takes much time to train
• it needs slow and gradual steps to find good network model to attein the goal
• it needs high spec environment to do try-and-error

Of course, there are free data sets and kinda sample network which works easily in short time. But at the case you practically make model to solve some practical problem personaly or oficilally, those restrictions can face with you.
The combination of Inception v3 model and fine tune can solve the point.