I'm working on a project and i need to make my CNN output like the output of the "Flatten" Layer. No classification just a vector of input photo features, and I'm kind of lost... i know every thing about CNN structure but how can i start doing this with python?
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Are you using Keras? If you are, you can take a look here for examples (https://keras.io/api/applications/#extract-features-with-vgg16).
Basically, you do
features = model.predict(x)
np.save(outfile, features) # outfile is your desire output filename
you can load back the file using
features = np.load(outfile)
Another alternative is the following.
Imagine you have a tf Keras model (here I take a small one for the sake of simplicity).
>>> model.summary()
Model: "sequential_1"
_________________________________________________________________
Layer (type) Output Shape Param #
=================================================================
dense_1 (Dense) (None, 128) 100480
_________________________________________________________________
dense_2 (Dense) (None, 64) 8256
_________________________________________________________________
dense_3 (Dense) (None, 32) 2080
_________________________________________________________________
dense_4 (Dense) (None, 1) 33
=================================================================
Total params: 110,849
Trainable params: 110,849
Non-trainable params: 0
_________________________________________________________________
Let's say you want a $32$-long feature vector, corresponding to the layer dense_3.
now you can create another object
outputs = model.get_layer('dense_3').output
child_model = tf.keras.Model(inputs = model.inputs, outputs= outputs)
and your child model does what you want. You need to call
features = child_model.predict(image)
Important note: If you print model.layers and child_model.layers you will not be surprised they share the same layers at the same memory addresses. This means training one will set the layers weights of the other.
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