First of all, Happy New Year to you all!
We have a great year ahead. And, let's start it with something interesting.
We've talked about how Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are able to learn complex features from input procedurally through convolutional filters in each layer.
But, how does a convolutional filter really look like?
In today's post, let's try to visualize the convolutional filters of the LeNet model trained on the MNIST dataset (handwritten digit classification) - often considered the 'hello world' program of deep learning.
The original code is designed to work with the VGG16 model. Let’s modify it a bit to work with our LeNet model.
We need to load the LeNet model with its weights. You can follow the code
here to train the model yourself and get the weights. Let's name the weights file as 'lenet_weights.hdf5'.
We'll start with the imports,
from scipy.misc import imsave
import numpy as np
import time
from keras import backend as K
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.convolutional import Conv2D
from keras.layers.convolutional import MaxPooling2D
from keras.layers.core import Activation
from keras.layers.core import Flatten
from keras.layers.core import Dense
from keras.optimizers import SGD
We need to build and load the LeNet model with the weights. So, we define a function - build_lenet - for it.
