Advanced CNNs for Computer Vision Applications
Chapter 1: Revisiting CNN Foundations and Modern Architectures
Brief Review of CNN Building Blocks
Evolution of CNN Architectures: AlexNet to ResNet
Understanding Residual Connections and Skip Architectures
Inception Modules and Network-in-Network Concepts
DenseNet: Architecture and Connectivity Patterns
EfficientNet: Compound Scaling for Models
Architectural Design Choices and Trade-offs
Implementing Modern Architectures Practice
Chapter 2: Advanced Training and Optimization Techniques
Advanced Optimization Algorithms
Learning Rate Schedules and Cyclical Learning Rates
Regularization Revisited: Advanced Techniques
Batch Normalization Internals and Alternatives
Weight Initialization Strategies for Deep Networks
Gradient Clipping and Gradient Flow Mitigation
Mixed Precision Training Fundamentals
Debugging and Monitoring Deep CNN Training
Hands-on Practical: Implementing Advanced Training Loops
Chapter 3: Object Detection Algorithms
Two-Stage Detectors: R-CNN Family
Region Proposal Networks Explained
Single-Stage Detectors: YOLO Family
Single-Stage Detectors: SSD and RetinaNet
Anchor Boxes: Design and Refinement
Non-Maximum Suppression Variants
Evaluation Metrics for Object Detection
Implementing an Object Detector Practice
Chapter 4: Image Segmentation Techniques
Semantic Segmentation vs. Instance Segmentation
Fully Convolutional Networks for Segmentation
Encoder-Decoder Architectures: U-Net and SegNet
Dilated (Atrous) Convolutions for Segmentation
DeepLab Family: Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling
Instance Segmentation Approaches (Mask R-CNN)
Evaluation Metrics for Segmentation
Hands-on Practical: Building a Semantic Segmentation Model
Chapter 5: Attention Mechanisms and Transformers in Vision
Self-Attention Mechanisms in CNNs
Non-local Neural Networks
Introduction to Vision Transformers
ViT Architecture: Patches, Embeddings, Transformer Encoder
Hybrid CNN-Transformer Models
Comparing CNNs and Transformers for Vision Tasks
Implementing Attention Blocks in CNNs Practice
Chapter 6: Advanced Transfer Learning and Domain Adaptation
Revisiting Transfer Learning Strategies
Fine-tuning vs. Feature Extraction: Advanced Considerations
Adapting Models to Different Data Distributions
Domain Generalization Concepts
Few-Shot Learning with CNNs
Self-Supervised Learning Pre-training for Vision
Hands-on Practical: Fine-tuning Models on Specialized Datasets
Chapter 7: Generative Adversarial Networks for Image Synthesis
GAN Fundamentals Revisited
Challenges in Training GANs
Deep Convolutional GANs (DCGANs)
Conditional GANs for Controlled Generation
StyleGAN Architecture and Style-Based Generation
Evaluation Metrics for GANs
Implementing a DCGAN for Image Generation Practice
Chapter 8: Model Compression and Efficient Deep Learning
Motivation for Efficient Models
Network Pruning Techniques
Knowledge Distillation Methods
Quantization: Reducing Model Precision
Designing Efficient Architectures
Neural Architecture Search Overview
Hands-on Practical: Applying Pruning and Quantization
Single-Stage Detectors: SSD and RetinaNet
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- SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector, Wei Liu, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Christian Szegedy, Scott Reed, Cheng-Yang Fu, Alexander C. Berg, 2016 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46448-0_2 - The original paper introducing the Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) architecture, detailing its multi-scale feature maps, default boxes, and training strategy for fast object detection.
- Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection, Tsung-Yi Lin, Priya Goyal, Ross Girshick, Kaiming He, Piotr Dollár, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1708.02002 - This paper introduces RetinaNet, a single-stage detector, and the Focal Loss function, designed to address the severe class imbalance problem inherent in dense object detection.
- Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection, Tsung-Yi Lin, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick, Kaiming He, Bharath Hariharan, Serge Belongie, 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1612.03144 - Describes the Feature Pyramid Network (FPN) architecture, which constructs a multi-scale feature pyramid from a single-resolution input, a component often employed with RetinaNet to improve detection across scales.