Topic summary
Convolutional neural networks
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Convolutional neural network.
Distinguishing features
Convolutional neural networks are variants of multilayer perceptrons, designed to emulate the behavior of a visual cortex. These models mitigate the challenges posed by the MLP architecture by exploiting the strong spatially local correlation present in natural images. As opposed to MLPs, CNNs have the following distinguishing features: