Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture Explained in Plain English Using Simple Diagrams

Neural Networks and Deep Learning Course: Part 23

Rukshan Pramoditha
Towards Data Science
11 min readJun 20, 2022

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Original image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay, edited by author

We’ve already discussed one neural network architecture — Multilayer Perceptron (MLP). An MLP is not suitable to use with image data as a large number of parameters are involved in the network even for small images.

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