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Accelerate convolutional neural networks for binary classification via cascading cost-sensitive feature

  • Junbiao Pang
  • , Huihuang Lin
  • , Li Su
  • , Chunjie Zhang
  • , Weigang Zhang
  • , Lijuan Duan
  • , Qingming Huang
  • , Baocai Yin
  • Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Telecommunication Software and Multimedia
  • Beijing University of Technology
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have delivered impressive state-of-the-art performances for many vision tasks, while the computation costs of these networks during test-time are notorious. Empirical results have discovered that CNNs have learned the redundant representations both within and across different layers. When CNNs are applied for binary classification, we investigate a method to exploit this redundancy across layers, and construct a cascade of classifiers which explicitly balances classification accuracy and hierarchical feature extraction costs. Our method cost-sensitively selects feature points across several layers from trained networks and embeds non-expensive yet discriminative features into a cascade. Experiments on binary classification demonstrate that our framework leads to drastic test-time improvements, e.g., possible 47.2x speedup for TRECVID upper body detection, 2.82x speedup for Pascal VOC2007 People detection, 3.72x for INRIA Person detection with less than 0.5% drop in accuracies of the original networks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Proceedings
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1037-1041
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781467399616
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Aug 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016 - Phoenix, United States
Duration: 25 Sep 201628 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2016-August
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPhoenix
Period25/09/1628/09/16

Keywords

  • Accelerate
  • Binary classification
  • Cascade
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Cost-sensitive
  • Feature selection

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