Performance of convolutional neural networks on CIFAR and Dog Breed classification dataset

Abstract

This research aims to study the deep learning applications in image recognition and classification tasks. The advantages and limitations of deep learning are explored by analysing existing deep learning algorithms and their applications on tasks such as using images to do classification, image segmentation, and target detection. In the experimental part, this paper evaluates the performance of deep learning in image recognition by using classical neural network models, including training and testing models on a large size of image datasets. The results show that neural network has good classification and detection capabilities in image recognition tasks and also achieves good results for image segmentation tasks. However, the model training process of shallow neural network models is time-consuming and performs poorly for small-scale datasets. Based on these situations, this paper proposes some optimization strategies to achieve high performance and efficiency of neural networks in image recognition and analyze the performance differences between different strategies .