Deep Learning Interview Questions Answers - Convolution Neural Networks

When we slide the filter matrix over the input matrix, in some cases, the filter matrix does not fit the input matrix perfectly, when the filter matrix does not fit the input matrix perfectly we apply padding.

When we pad the input matrix with zero values is called the same padding and instead of padding if we discard the region of input matrix which does not fit well with the filter matrix then it is called valid padding.

The activation map which is obtained as a result of the convolutional operation will have a large dimension. To reduce the dimension of activation maps, we use the pooling layer.

The different types of pooling include the following:

1) Max pooling
2) Average pooling
3) Sum pooling

Let’s say we performing an image classification task. First, we feed the image as input to the network and perform the convolution operation.  The convolution operation extracts the important features from the image and produces the feature map. Then we feed this feature map to the fully connected layer which performs the classification task.