Performance Evaluation of Deep Learning Classification Network for Image Features

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful image processing technique that learns the features of the data and produces state-of-the-art prediction results. The decade from 2010 to 2020 is a real revival of DL, which has come to a turning point in history. In image classification, many deep learning networks have been proposed by scholars, and each of them has its own strengthness. It is very important and efficient for the researchers and the developers to know the performance of these networks, especially for the beginners, so as to give them a transplant instruction by an objective evaluation index. In this paper, we constructed different data sets from three aspects, texture, shape, and measurement scale to test the performance of nine mainstream image classification networks. Cross-contrast experiments were performed to analyze the sensitivity of factors which influence the stability of image classification networks. Experimental results shown that in the 27 image datasets generated by the three image factors, the classification performance of AlexNet, GoogleNet, VggNet, and DenseNet is better. The perfomance comparison of these networks are showed and discussed in details. Code and pretrained models are available at https://github.com/liqiang12689/image-classification-finall .