globalAveragePooling3dLayer

3-D global average pooling layer

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Description

A 3-D global average pooling layer performs down-sampling by computing the mean of the height, width, and depth dimensions of the input.

Creation

Syntax

layer = globalAveragePooling3dLayer
layer = globalAveragePooling3dLayer('Name',name)

Description

layer = globalAveragePooling3dLayer creates a 3-D global average pooling layer.

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layer = globalAveragePooling3dLayer('Name',name) sets the optional Name property.

Properties

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Layer name, specified as a character vector or a string scalar. To include a layer in a layer graph, you must specify a nonempty unique layer name. If you train a series network with the layer and Name is set to '', then the software automatically assigns a name to the layer at training time.

Data Types: char | string

Number of inputs of the layer. This layer accepts a single input only.

Data Types: double

Input names of the layer. This layer accepts a single input only.

Data Types: cell

Number of outputs of the layer. This layer has a single output only.

Data Types: double

Output names of the layer. This layer has a single output only.

Data Types: cell

Examples

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Create a 3-D global average pooling layer with the name 'gap1'.

layer = globalAveragePooling3dLayer('Name','gap1')
layer = 
  GlobalAveragePooling3DLayer with properties:

    Name: 'gap1'

Include a 3-D global average pooling layer in a Layer array.

layers = [ ...
    image3dInputLayer([28 28 28 3])
    convolution3dLayer(5,20)
    reluLayer
    globalAveragePooling3dLayer
    fullyConnectedLayer(10)
    softmaxLayer
    classificationLayer]
layers = 
  7x1 Layer array with layers:

     1   ''   3-D Image Input              28x28x28x3 images with 'zerocenter' normalization
     2   ''   Convolution                  20 5x5x5 convolutions with stride [1  1  1] and padding [0  0  0; 0  0  0]
     3   ''   ReLU                         ReLU
     4   ''   3-D Global Average Pooling   3-D global average pooling
     5   ''   Fully Connected              10 fully connected layer
     6   ''   Softmax                      softmax
     7   ''   Classification Output        crossentropyex

Tips

  • In an image classification network, you can use a globalAveragePooling3dLayer before the final fully connected layer to reduce the size of the activations without sacrificing performance. The reduced size of the activations means that the downstream fully connected layers will have fewer weights, reducing the size of your network.

  • You can use a globalAveragePooling3dLayer towards the end of a classification network instead of a fullyConnectedLayer. Since global pooling layers have no learnable parameters, they can be less prone to overfitting and can reduce the size of the network. These networks can also be more robust to spatial translations of input data. You can also replace a fully connected layer with a globalMaxPooling3dLayer instead. Whether a globalMaxPooling3dLayer or a globalAveragePooling3dLayer is more appropriate depends on your data set.

    To use a global average pooling layer instead of a fully connected layer, the size of the input to globalAveragePooling3dLayer must match the number of classes in the classification problem

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Introduced in R2019b

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