SURFCNN: A DESCRIPTOR ENHANCED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK

Ahmed M.Elmoogy, Xiaodai Dong, Tao Lu, Robert Westendorp, Michael Xie

Abstract: Adding an image descriptor to the input significantly enhances the performance of a convolutional neural network. By incorporating a SURF descriptor for indoor localization applications, we report a simpler convolutional neural network with fast training speed and outstanding accuracy and without the need for a pretrained network in contrast to the state of art.

Keywords: SURF, CNN, image descriptor

TL;DR: We use an image descriptor to make convolutional neural network more efficient.