Classifying Dogs and Cats ussing CNN (MM803 Project- Image and Video Processing)

The aim of this project is to use Deep Learning as a tool to correctly classify images of cats and dogs,using a subset of the Asirra dataset. To foster a good understanding, and appreciate some Deep Learning techniques and models, the project report has been drafted such that, every new experiment leads to an incremental growth in performance, compared to the previous experiment. MM803_Project_Report.pdf file contains the full project report.

In this project, the different techniques like data augmentation, batch normalization, and weight initialization were studied and their results were compared. I was able to get a classification accuracy of 90.18%, without the use of an external dataset. This accuracy can further be improved by making just slight changes to the existing model by fine tuning the hyperparameters even more. Due to hardware constraints, I had to limit myself to at most of 200 epochs. This leaves a big scope for future work to be done using different activation functions like pRelu and leakyRelu, different models, and benchmarking their performance.

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The following softwares are required to run this project

1. Python 2.7
2. Keras 1.1.2
3. Theano 0.9.0.dev4

Labeled Images for training

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5L6sQPsKnRfV2k0Q3Z0VThPQTA

After training, test the model using these images

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5L6sQPsKnRfZkFpalVtTmhUZXc

To start training, type the following in your terminal

python demo1.py -train train_basic

After Training, use type the following your terminal, to Test with Images

python exp1_Test_batch.py -image test_classification

Training Loss VS Validation Loss

Experiements were performed using the following hardware

1. Processor: Intel Core i7-6700HQ(2.6Ghz)
2. RAM: 16GB DDR4
3. GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 (6GB)

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Shrobon Biswas

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