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
Encoder-Decoder Architectures: U-Net and SegNet
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- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Olaf Ronneberger, Philipp Fischer, and Thomas Brox, 2015 Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2015 (Springer) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24574-4_28 - The original paper proposing the U-Net architecture, highlighting its symmetric encoder-decoder structure and skip connections for precise localization, especially in medical imaging.
- SegNet: A Deep Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Image Segmentation, Vijay Badrinarayanan, Alex Kendall, and Roberto Cipolla, 2017 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 39 DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2628904 - The foundational paper introducing SegNet, distinguishing its upsampling method using max-pooling indices for memory efficiency.
- Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation, Jonathan Long, Evan Shelhamer, Trevor Darrell, 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (IEEE) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1411.4038 - This work established fully convolutional networks as the basis for end-to-end semantic segmentation, directly influencing subsequent encoder-decoder designs like U-Net and SegNet.