Pooling, Receptive Field and CNNs

3 min
Audience
ages 10–15
Duration
30 to 40 min
Adventure
5/8
Badge to earn
CNN Architect

Today's mission

Build a small paper CNN and trace how the receptive field grows all the way to the decision.

Proof of success: explain "Pooling, receptive field and CNNs", complete "The Pyramid of Maps" and name the limit of the analogy.

The story

Noé has a 4 × 4 activation map. In each 2 × 2 square, he keeps the maximum value: the map becomes 2 × 2. This max pooling preserves a strong response but forgets its exact position. By alternating convolutions, activations and summaries, a CNN gradually combines a larger area of the image. The receptive field of a unit tells you which input cells can influence its result.

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