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googlenet

(Not recommended) GoogLeNet convolutional neural network

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  • GoogLeNet network architecture

googlenet is not recommended. Use the imagePretrainedNetwork function instead and specify the "googlenet" model. For more information, see Version History.

Syntax

net = googlenet
net = googlenet('Weights',weights)
lgraph = googlenet('Weights','none')

Description

GoogLeNet is a convolutional neural network that is 22 layers deep. You can load a pretrained version of the network trained on either the ImageNet [1] or Places365 [2] [3] data sets. The network trained on ImageNet classifies images into 1000 object categories, such as keyboard, mouse, pencil, and many animals. The network trained on Places365 is similar to the network trained on ImageNet, but classifies images into 365 different place categories, such as field, park, runway, and lobby. These networks have learned different feature representations for a wide range of images. The pretrained networks both have an image input size of 224-by-224. For more pretrained networks in MATLAB®, see Pretrained Deep Neural Networks.

net = googlenet returns a GoogLeNet network trained on the ImageNet data set.

This function requires the Deep Learning Toolbox™ Model for GoogLeNet Network support package. If this support package is not installed, then the function provides a download link.

example

net = googlenet('Weights',weights) returns a GoogLeNet network trained on either the ImageNet or Places365 data set. The syntax googlenet('Weights','imagenet') (default) is equivalent to googlenet.

The network trained on ImageNet requires the Deep Learning Toolbox Model for GoogLeNet Network support package. The network trained on Places365 requires the Deep Learning Toolbox Model for Places365-GoogLeNet Network support package. If the required support package is not installed, then the function provides a download link.

lgraph = googlenet('Weights','none') returns the untrained GoogLeNet network architecture. The untrained model does not require the support package.

Examples

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Download and install the Deep Learning Toolbox Model for GoogLeNet Network support package.

Type googlenet at the command line.

googlenet

If the Deep Learning Toolbox Model for GoogLeNet Network support package is not installed, then the function provides a link to the required support package in the Add-On Explorer. To install the support package, click the link, and then click Install. Check that the installation is successful by typing googlenet at the command line. If the required support package is installed, then the function returns a DAGNetwork object.

googlenet
ans = 

  DAGNetwork with properties:

         Layers: [144×1 nnet.cnn.layer.Layer]
    Connections: [170×2 table]

Visualize the network using Deep Network Designer. 

deepNetworkDesigner(googlenet)

Explore other pretrained neural networks in Deep Network Designer by clicking New.

Deep Network Designer start page showing available pretrained neural networks

If you need to download a neural network, pause on the desired neural network and click Install to open the Add-On Explorer.

Input Arguments

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Source of network parameters, specified as 'imagenet' ,'places365', or 'none'.

  • If weights equals 'imagenet', then the network has weights trained on the ImageNet data set.

  • If weights equals 'places365', then the network has weights trained on the Places365 data set.

  • If weights equals 'none', then the untrained network architecture is returned.

Example: 'places365'

Output Arguments

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Pretrained GoogLeNet convolutional neural network, returned as a DAGNetwork object.

Untrained GoogLeNet convolutional neural network architecture, returned as a LayerGraph object.

References

[1] ImageNet. http://www.image-net.org.

[2] Zhou, Bolei, Aditya Khosla, Agata Lapedriza, Antonio Torralba, and Aude Oliva. "Places: An image database for deep scene understanding." arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.02055 (2016).

[3] Places. http://places2.csail.mit.edu/

[4] Szegedy, Christian, Wei Liu, Yangqing Jia, Pierre Sermanet, Scott Reed, Dragomir Anguelov, Dumitru Erhan, Vincent Vanhoucke, and Andrew Rabinovich. “Going Deeper with Convolutions.” In 2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1–9. Boston, MA, USA: IEEE, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298594.

Extended Capabilities

Version History

Introduced in R2017b

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R2024a: Not Recommended

googlenet is not recommended. Use the imagePretrainedNetwork function instead and specify "googlenet" as the model.

There are no plans to remove support for the googlenet function. However, the imagePretrainedNetwork function has additional functionality that helps with transfer learning workflows. For example, you can specify the number of classes in your data using the numClasses option, and the function returns a network that is ready for retraining without the need for modification.

This table shows some typical usages of the googlenet function and how to update your code to use the imagePretrainedNetwork function instead.

Not RecommendedRecommended
net = googlenet;net = imagePretrainedNetwork("googlenet");
net = googlenet(Weights="places365");net = imagePretrainedNetwork("googlenet-places365")
net = googlenet(Weights="none");net = imagePretrainedNetwork("googlenet",Weights="none");

The imagePretrainedNetwork returns a dlnetwork object, which also has these advantages:

  • dlnetwork objects are a unified data type that supports network building, prediction, built-in training, visualization, compression, verification, and custom training loops.

  • dlnetwork objects support a wider range of network architectures that you can create or import from external platforms.

  • The trainnet function supports dlnetwork objects, which enables you to easily specify loss functions. You can select from built-in loss functions or specify a custom loss function.

  • Training and prediction with dlnetwork objects is typically faster than LayerGraph and trainNetwork workflows.

To train a neural network specified as a dlnetwork object, use the trainnet function.

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