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CNN

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌsiː en ˈen/abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, CNN means: Short for convolutional neural network: a network that slides small learned filters over an image to detect patterns such as edges, textures and shapes.

In Turkish: evrişimli sinir ağı, konvolüsyonel sinir ağı

How it is used

For years the standard model in computer vision, and still widely used on phones, cameras and embedded devices because it is efficient. It is often compared with vision transformers. Also called a ConvNet.

Example sentences

  1. A small CNN runs on the doorbell camera and detects people in real time.

  2. We compared a CNN with a vision transformer, and the CNN was faster at similar accuracy.

Common collocations

  • train a CNN
  • CNN backbone
  • CNN architecture
  • convolutional layer
  • computer visionThe area of AI that teaches computers to understand images and video, for example recognizing objects, reading text in photos or tracking movement.
  • neural networkA model made of many connected units arranged in layers, loosely inspired by the brain. Each connection has a weight that is adjusted during training.
  • layerOne level of a neural network: a group of units that takes the output of the previous level, transforms it and passes the result on to the next one.
  • object detectionA computer vision task that finds objects in an image or video and gives both their class, such as 'car' or 'person', and their position, usually as a box.

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