import pickle,gzip,math,os,time,shutil,torch,matplotlib as mpl, numpy as np
import pandas as pd,matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from pathlib import Path
from torch import tensor
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from typing import MappingConvolutions
Convolutions
Other forms of AI - multi level perceptron - convolution - transformer net works
mpl.rcParams['image.cmap'] = 'gray'path_data = Path('Data')
path_gz = path_data/'mnist.pkl.gz'
with gzip.open(path_gz, 'rb') as f: ((x_train, y_train), (x_valid, y_valid), _) = pickle.load(f, encoding='latin-1')
x_train, y_train, x_valid, y_valid = map(tensor, [x_train, y_train, x_valid, y_valid])In the context of an image, a feature is a visually distinctive attribute. For example, the number 7 is characterized by a horizontal edge near the top of the digit, and a top-right to bottom-left diagonal edge underneath that.
It turns out that finding the edges in an image is a very common task in computer vision, and is surprisingly straightforward. To do it, we use a convolution. A convolution requires nothing more than multiplication, and addition.
Understanding the Convolution Equations
To explain the math behind convolutions, fast.ai student Matt Kleinsmith came up with the very clever idea of showing CNNs from different viewpoints.
Here’s the input:
Here’s our kernel:
Since the filter fits in the image four times, we have four results:
x_imgs = x_train.view(-1,28,28)
xv_imgs = x_valid.view(-1,28,28)mpl.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 30im3 = x_imgs[7]
show_image(im3), im3.shape
top_edge = tensor([[-1,-1,-1],
[ 0, 0, 0],
[ 1, 1, 1]]).float()We’re going to call this our kernel (because that’s what fancy computer vision researchers call these).
show_image(top_edge, noframe=True);
The filter will take any window of size 3×3 in our images, and if we name the pixel values like this:
\[\begin{matrix} a1 & a2 & a3 \\ a4 & a5 & a6 \\ a7 & a8 & a9 \end{matrix}\]
it will return \(-a1-a2-a3+a7+a8+a9\).
df = pd.DataFrame(im3[:28,:28])
df.style.format(precision=2).set_properties(**{'font-size':'7pt'}).background_gradient('Greys')| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 0.41 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.68 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 0.54 | 0.88 | 0.88 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.62 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.43 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.90 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.74 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 9 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.88 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.67 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 10 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.33 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.34 | 0.74 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 12 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.83 | 0.96 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.80 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.49 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.93 | 0.40 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.87 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.69 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 15 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.18 | 0.87 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 16 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.48 | 0.20 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 0.56 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 17 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.06 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.34 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 19 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.29 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.71 | 0.98 | 0.11 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.36 | 0.93 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.95 | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.81 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.57 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.52 | 0.79 | 0.99 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.73 | 0.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.81 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.99 | 0.90 | 0.60 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 23 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.19 | 0.61 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.98 | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.57 | 0.18 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.40 | 0.92 | 0.98 | 0.67 | 0.40 | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 26 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
(im3[3:6,14:17] * top_edge).sum()tensor(2.9727)(im3[7:10,14:17] * top_edge).sum()tensor(-2.9570)Exported source
def apply_kernel(row, col, kernel): return (im3[row-1:row+2,col-1:col+2] * kernel).sum()apply_kernel(4,15,top_edge)tensor(2.9727)
[[(i,j) for j in range(5)] for i in range(5)][[(0, 0), (0, 1), (0, 2), (0, 3), (0, 4)],
[(1, 0), (1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3), (1, 4)],
[(2, 0), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4)],
[(3, 0), (3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3), (3, 4)],
[(4, 0), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4)]]rng = range(1,27)
top_edge3 = tensor([[apply_kernel(i,j,top_edge) for j in rng] for i in rng])
show_image(top_edge3);
left_edge = tensor([[-1,0,1],
[-1,0,1],
[-1,0,1]]).float()show_image(left_edge, noframe=False);
left_edge3 = tensor([[apply_kernel(i,j,left_edge) for j in rng] for i in rng])
show_image(left_edge3);
Convolutions in PyTorch
Exported source
import torch.nn.functional as F
import torchWhat to do if you have 2 months to complete your thesis? Use im2col.
Here’s a sample numpy implementation.
inp = im3[None,None,:,:].float()
inp_unf = F.unfold(inp, (3,3))[0]
inp_unf.shapetorch.Size([9, 676])im3.shape, 26 * 26(torch.Size([28, 28]), 676)w = left_edge.view(-1)
w.shapetorch.Size([9])out_unf = w@inp_unf
out_unf.shapetorch.Size([676])out = out_unf.view(26,26)
show_image(out);
11.3 ms ± 629 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1 loop each)39.7 µs ± 7.89 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)19.6 µs ± 9.05 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)diag1_edge = tensor([[ 0,-1, 1],
[-1, 1, 0],
[ 1, 0, 0]]).float()show_image(diag1_edge, noframe=True);
diag2_edge = tensor([[ 1,-1, 0],
[ 0, 1,-1],
[ 0, 0, 1]]).float()show_image(diag2_edge, noframe=False);
xb = x_imgs[:16][:,None]
xb.shapetorch.Size([16, 1, 28, 28])edge_kernels = torch.stack([left_edge, top_edge, diag1_edge, diag2_edge])[:,None]
edge_kernels.shapetorch.Size([4, 1, 3, 3])batch_features = F.conv2d(xb, edge_kernels)
batch_features.shapetorch.Size([16, 4, 26, 26])The output shape shows we gave 64 images in the mini-batch, 4 kernels, and 26×26 edge maps (we started with 28×28 images, but lost one pixel from each side as discussed earlier). We can see we get the same results as when we did this manually:
img0 = xb[1,0]
show_image(img0);
Exported source
from itertools import zip_longestshow_images([batch_features[1,i] for i in range(4)])
Strides and Padding
With appropriate padding, we can ensure that the output activation map is the same size as the original image.
With a 5×5 input, 4×4 kernel, and 2 pixels of padding, we end up with a 6×6 activation map.
If we add a kernel of size ks by ks (with ks an odd number), the necessary padding on each side to keep the same shape is ks//2.
We could move over two pixels after each kernel application. This is known as a stride-2 convolution.
Creating the CNN
n,m = x_train.shape
c = y_train.max()+1
nh = 50model = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(m,nh), nn.ReLU(), nn.Linear(nh,10))broken_cnn = nn.Sequential(
nn.Conv2d(1,30, kernel_size=3, padding=1),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Conv2d(30,10, kernel_size=3, padding=1)
)broken_cnn(xb).shapetorch.Size([16, 10, 28, 28])Exported source
def conv(ni, nf, ks=3, stride=2, act=True):
res = nn.Conv2d(ni, nf, stride=stride, kernel_size=ks, padding=ks//2)
if act: res = nn.Sequential(res, nn.ReLU())
return resRefactoring parts of your neural networks like this makes it much less likely you’ll get errors due to inconsistencies in your architectures, and makes it more obvious to the reader which parts of your layers are actually changing.
simple_cnn = nn.Sequential(
conv(1 ,4), #14x14
conv(4 ,8), #7x7
conv(8 ,16), #4x4
conv(16,16), #2x2
conv(16,10, act=False), #1x1
nn.Flatten(),
)dimensions = [o.shape for o in model.parameters()]
parameters_per_layer = [np.product(o.shape) for o in model.parameters()]
parameters_total = tensor([np.product(o.shape) for o in model.parameters()]).sum()
model, dimensions, parameters_per_layer, parameters_total(Sequential(
(0): Linear(in_features=784, out_features=50, bias=True)
(1): ReLU()
(2): Linear(in_features=50, out_features=10, bias=True)
),
[torch.Size([50, 784]),
torch.Size([50]),
torch.Size([10, 50]),
torch.Size([10])],
[39200, 50, 500, 10],
tensor(39760))dimensions = [o.shape for o in simple_cnn.parameters()]
parameters_per_layer = [np.product(o.shape) for o in simple_cnn.parameters()]
parameters_total = tensor([np.product(o.shape) for o in simple_cnn.parameters()]).sum()
simple_cnn, dimensions, parameters_per_layer, parameters_total(Sequential(
(0): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(1, 4, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(1): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(4, 8, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(2): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(8, 16, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(3): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(16, 16, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(4): Conv2d(16, 10, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(5): Flatten(start_dim=1, end_dim=-1)
),
[torch.Size([4, 1, 3, 3]),
torch.Size([4]),
torch.Size([8, 4, 3, 3]),
torch.Size([8]),
torch.Size([16, 8, 3, 3]),
torch.Size([16]),
torch.Size([16, 16, 3, 3]),
torch.Size([16]),
torch.Size([10, 16, 3, 3]),
torch.Size([10])],
[36, 4, 288, 8, 1152, 16, 2304, 16, 1440, 10],
tensor(5274))simple_cnn(xb).shapetorch.Size([16, 10])x_imgs = x_train.view(-1,1,28,28)
xv_imgs = x_valid.view(-1,1,28,28)
train_ds,valid_ds = Dataset(x_imgs, y_train),Dataset(xv_imgs, y_valid)Exported source
def to_device(x, device=def_device):
if isinstance(x, torch.Tensor): return x.to(device)
if isinstance(x, Mapping): return {k:v.to(device) for k,v in x.items()}
return type(x)(to_device(o, device) for o in x)
def collate_device(b): return to_device(default_collate(b))from torch import optim
bs = 256
lr = 0.4
train_dl,valid_dl = get_dls(train_ds, valid_ds, bs, collate_fn=collate_device)
opt = optim.SGD(simple_cnn.parameters(), lr=lr)loss,acc = fit(5, simple_cnn.to(def_device), F.cross_entropy, opt, train_dl, valid_dl)0 0.5696531332492828 0.8189000003814697
1 0.17475426919460296 0.9438000001907348
2 0.1348926905155182 0.9603000007629394
3 0.11516531736850738 0.9650000008583068
4 0.19701933751106263 0.9389000008583069opt = optim.SGD(simple_cnn.parameters(), lr=lr/4)
loss,acc = fit(5, simple_cnn.to(def_device), F.cross_entropy, opt, train_dl, valid_dl)0 0.08551515686511993 0.9752999995231628
1 0.09710506019592285 0.9714999994277954
2 0.08652983202934265 0.9754999995231628
3 0.08377773129940033 0.9766999995231629
4 0.08503483123779297 0.9750999995231628Understanding Convolution Arithmetic
In an input of size 64x1x28x28 the axes are batch,channel,height,width. This is often represented as NCHW (where N refers to batch size). Tensorflow, on the other hand, uses NHWC axis order (aka “channels-last”). Channels-last is faster for many models, so recently it’s become more common to see this as an option in PyTorch too.
We have 1 input channel, 4 output channels, and a 3×3 kernel.
simple_cnnSequential(
(0): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(1, 4, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(1): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(4, 8, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(2): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(8, 16, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(3): Sequential(
(0): Conv2d(16, 16, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(1): ReLU()
)
(4): Conv2d(16, 10, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))
(5): Flatten(start_dim=1, end_dim=-1)
)simple_cnn[0][0]Conv2d(1, 4, kernel_size=(3, 3), stride=(2, 2), padding=(1, 1))conv1 = simple_cnn[0][0]
conv1.weight.shapetorch.Size([4, 1, 3, 3])conv1.bias.shapetorch.Size([4])The receptive field is the area of an image that is involved in the calculation of a layer. conv-example.xlsx shows the calculation of two stride-2 convolutional layers using an MNIST digit. Here’s what we see if we click on one of the cells in the conv2 section, which shows the output of the second convolutional layer, and click trace precedents.
The blue highlighted cells are its precedents—that is, the cells used to calculate its value. These cells are the corresponding 3×3 area of cells from the input layer (on the left), and the cells from the filter (on the right). Click trace precedents again:
In this example, we have just two convolutional layers. We can see that a 7×7 area of cells in the input layer is used to calculate the single green cell in the Conv2 layer. This is the receptive field
The deeper we are in the network (specifically, the more stride-2 convs we have before a layer), the larger the receptive field for an activation in that layer.
Color Images
A colour picture is a rank-3 tensor:
from torchvision.io import read_imageim = read_image('images/grizzly.jpg')
im.shapetorch.Size([3, 1000, 846])show_image(im.permute(1,2,0));
_,axs = plt.subplots(1,3)
for bear,ax,color in zip(im,axs,('Reds','Greens','Blues')): show_image(255-bear, ax=ax, cmap=color)
These are then all added together, to produce a single number, for each grid location, for each output feature.
We have ch_out filters like this, so in the end, the result of our convolutional layer will be a batch of images with ch_out channels.