High-end image classification on the dogs vs. cats dataset using convolutional neural network.

The enormous benefits and applications of Image classification and recognition are umpteen. Machine learning algorithms and Deep Neural Networks are like windfall to fathom the objective proficiently in streamlined manner. The prevalent improvement in this technology is that these networks do not call for any prior blueprints in terms of algorithms as prerequisites. The presented paper is an attempt to create a Convolutional Neural Network from scratch to classify the images from the well-known dataset – Cats and Dogs into their relevant baskets. Manifold open source accessible approaches to amplify the efficiency of the network are no more onerous. Further, data augmentation technique boosts the efficiency tremendously by extending the dataset with reoriented features from the same images. To untangle the same problem, Transfer Learning is also a compelling technique in which all the layers, neurons in each layer, weights of each neuron and all other parameters are predefined and we can amend the output layer as per the classes in the respective problem statement. In the present paper, we have tried to obtain a comparable efficiency with a significant reduction in parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]