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CNN architecture: classifying "good" and "bad" images

I'm researching the possibility of implementing a CNN in order to classify images as "good" or "bad" but am having no luck with my current architecture.
Characteristics that denote a "bad" image:
Overexposure
Oversaturation
Incorrect white balance
Blurriness
Would it be feasible to implement a neural network to classify images based on these characteristics or is it best left to a traditional algorithm that simply looks at the variance in brightness/contrast throughout an image and classifies it that way?
I have attempted training a CNN using the VGGNet architecture but I always seem to get a biased and unreliable model, regardless of the number of epochs or number of steps.
Examples:
My current model's architecture is very simple (as I am new to the whole machine learning world) but seemed to work fine with other classification problems, and I have modified it slightly to work better with this binary classification problem:
# CONV => RELU => POOL layer set
# define convolutional layers, use "ReLU" activation function
# and reduce the spatial size (width and height) with pool layers
model.add(Conv2D(32, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 32 3x3 filters (height, width, depth)
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.25)) # helps prevent overfitting (25% of neurons disconnected randomly)
# (CONV => RELU) * 2 => POOL layer set (increasing number of layers as you go deeper into CNN)
model.add(Conv2D(64, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 64 3x3 filters
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(Conv2D(64, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 64 3x3 filters
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.25)) # helps prevent overfitting (25% of neurons disconnected randomly)
# (CONV => RELU) * 3 => POOL layer set (input volume size becoming smaller and smaller)
model.add(Conv2D(128, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 128 3x3 filters
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(Conv2D(128, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 128 3x3 filters
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(Conv2D(128, (3, 3), padding="same", input_shape=input_shape)) # 128 3x3 filters
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization(axis=channel_dimension))
model.add(MaxPooling2D(pool_size=(2,2)))
model.add(Dropout(0.25)) # helps prevent overfitting (25% of neurons disconnected randomly)
# only set of FC => RELU layers
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(512))
model.add(Activation("relu"))
model.add(BatchNormalization())
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
# sigmoid classifier (output layer)
model.add(Dense(classes))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
Is there any glaring omissions or mistakes with this model or can I simply not solve this problem using deep learning (with my current GPU, a GTX 970)?
Thanks for your time and experience,
Josh
EDIT:
Here is my code for compiling/training the model:
# initialise the model and optimiser
print("[INFO] Training network...")
opt = SGD(lr=initial_lr, decay=initial_lr / epochs)
model.compile(loss="sparse_categorical_crossentropy", optimizer=opt, metrics=["accuracy"])
# set up checkpoints
model_name = "output/50_epochs_{epoch:02d}_{val_acc:.2f}.model"
checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint(model_name, monitor='val_acc', verbose=1,
save_best_only=True, mode='max')
reduce_lr = ReduceLROnPlateau(monitor='val_loss', factor=0.2,
patience=5, min_lr=0.001)
tensorboard = TensorBoard(log_dir="logs/{}".format(time()))
callbacks_list = [checkpoint, reduce_lr, tensorboard]
# train the network
H = model.fit_generator(training_set, steps_per_epoch=500, epochs=50, validation_data=test_set, validation_steps=150, callbacks=callbacks_list)

Independently of any other advice (including the answer already provided), and assuming classes=2 (which you don't clarify - there is a reason we ask for a MCVE here), you seem to perform a fundamental mistake in your final layer, i.e.:
# sigmoid classifier (output layer)
model.add(Dense(classes))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
A sigmoid activation is suitable only if your final layer consists of a single node; if classes=2, as I suspect, based also on your puzzling statement in the comments that
with three different images, my results are 0.987 bad and 0.999 good
and
I was giving you the predictions from the model previously
you should use a softmax activation, i.e.
model.add(Dense(classes))
model.add(Activation("softmax"))
Alternatively, you could use sigmoid, but your final layer should consist of a single node, i.e.
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
The latter is usually preferred in binary classification settings, but the results should be the same in principle.
UPDATE (after updating the question):
sparse_categorical_crossentropy is not the correct loss here, either.
All in all, try the following changes:
model.compile(loss="binary_crossentropy", optimizer=Adam(), metrics=["accuracy"])
# final layer:
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
with Adam optimizer (needs import). Also, dropout should not be used by default - see this thread; start without it and only add if necessary (i.e. if you see signs of overfitting).

I suggest you go for transfer learning instead of training the whole network.
use the weights trained on a huge Dataset like ImageNet
you can easily do this using Keras you just need to import model with weights like xception and remove last layer which represents 1000 classes of imagenet dataset to 2 node dense layer cause you have only 2 classes and set trainable=False for the base layer and trainable=True for custom added layers like dense layer having node = 2.
and you can train the model as usual way.
Demo code -
from keras.applications import *
from keras.models import Model
base_model = Xception(input_shape=(img_width, img_height, 3), weights='imagenet', include_top=False
x = base_model.output
x = GlobalAveragePooling2D()(x)
predictions = Dense(2, activation='softmax')(x)
model = Model(base_model.input, predictions)
# freezing the base layer weights
for layer in base_model.layers:
layer.trainable = False

Keras - How to convert LSTM code into CNN

I am working on binary classification sentiment analysis either positive or negative my lstm code is working fine but i am converting my lstm code into cnn having Value error of "input_length" is 30, but received input has shape (None, 1)
my input shape is (30,1) my batch size is 24 in lstm
model.add(Embedding(30,30,input_length=30))
model.add(Conv1D(padding='valid',activation='relu',strides=1))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Dense(30))
model.add(Dropout(0.2))
model.add(Activation('relu'))
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation('sigmoid'))
model.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy',optimizer='adam',metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(inputBatch, ponlabel,batch_size=24,epochs=20,validation_data=(inputBatch, ponlabel))
for the sake of reference I have put my LSTM Code.
model.add(LSTM(100, input_shape=(30, 1)))
model.add(Dense(30, activation="relu"))
model.add(Dense(1, activation="sigmoid"))
model.compile(loss='mean_absolute_error', optimizer='adam',metrics=["accuracy"])
model.fit(inputBatch, ponlabel,
batch_size=24, epochs=20, verbose=1)

You are using Convolution2D but your data over timesteps is 1 dimensional. So you need to use Convolutional1D to convolve over the tokens in your sentence. There is a CNN text classification in the Keras examples folder imdb_cnn.py.

Input nodes in Keras NN

I am trying to create an neural network based on the iris dataset. I have an input of four dimensions. X = dataset[:,0:4].astype(float). Then, I create a neural network with four nodes.
model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(4, input_dim=4, init='normal', activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(3, init='normal', activation='sigmoid'))
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])
As I understand, I pass each dimension to the separate node. Four dimensions - four nodes. When I create a neural network with 8 input nodes, how does it work? Performance still is the same as with 4 nodes.
model = Sequential()
model.add(Dense(8, input_dim=4, init='normal', activation='relu'))
model.add(Dense(3, init='normal', activation='sigmoid'))
model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', metrics=['accuracy'])

You have an error on your last activation. Use softmax instead of sigmoid and run again.
replace
model.add(Dense(3, init='normal', activation='sigmoid'))
with
model.add(Dense(3, init='normal', activation='softmax'))

To answer your main question of "How does this work?":
From a conceptual standpoint, you are initially creating a fully-connected, or Dense, neural network with 3 layers: an input layer with 4 nodes, a hidden layer with 4 nodes, and an output layer with 3 nodes. Each node in the input layer has a connection to every node in the hidden layer, and same with the hidden to the output layer.
In your second example, you just increased the number of nodes in the hidden layer from 4 to 8. A larger network can be good, as it can be trained to "look" for more things in your data. But too large of a layer and you may overfit; this means the network remembers too much of the training data, when it really just needs a general idea of the training data so it can still recognize slightly different data, which is your testing data.
The reason you may not have seen an increase in performance is likely either overfitting or your activation function; Try a function other than relu in your hidden layer. After trying a few different function combinations, if you don't see any improvement, you are likely overfitting.
Hope this helps.

How to extract weights of hidden layers with Keras API

I have a simple sequential neural network which I would like to use to train a classifier. It is made of one input layer, 3 hidden layers and one output layer, as follows:
#sequential type of model
model = Sequential()
#stacking layers with .add
model.add(Dense(len(ytrain), activation='relu', input_dim=100))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(len(ytrain), activation='relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(len(ytrain), activation='relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(len(ytrain), activation='relu'))
model.add(Dropout(0.5))
model.add(Dense(5, activation='softmax'))
How can I extract the weights associated with each hidden layer. The ultimate goal is to then use the activation function to compute the probability of each label to be the correct one.
Hope you understand. Any kind of help is appreciated.

weights = [layer.get_weights() for layer in model.layers]

Activation function error in a 1D CNN in Keras

I'm creating a model to classify if the input waverform contains rising edge of SDA of I2C line.
My input has 20000 datapoints and 100 training data.
I've initially found an answer regarding the input in here Keras 1D CNN: How to specify dimension correctly?
However, I'm getting an error in the activation function:
ValueError: Error when checking target: expected activation_1 to have 3 dimensions, but got array with shape (100, 1)
My model is:
model.add(Conv1D(filters=n_filter,
kernel_size=input_filter_length,
strides=1,
activation='relu',
input_shape=(20000,1)))
model.add(BatchNormalization())
model.add(MaxPooling1D(pool_size=4, strides=None))
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
adam = Adam(lr=learning_rate)
model.compile(optimizer= adam, loss='binary_crossentropy', metrics=['accuracy'])
model.fit(train_data, train_label,
nb_epoch=10,
batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True)
score = np.asarray(model.evaluate(test_new_data, test_label, batch_size=batch_size))*100.0
I can't determine the problem in here. On why the activation function expects a 3D tensor.

The problem lies in the fact that starting from keras 2.0, a Dense layer applied to a sequence will apply the layer to each time step - so given a sequence it will produce a sequence. So your Dense is actually producing a sequence of 1-element vectors and this causes your problem (as your target is not a sequence).
There are several ways on how to reduce a sequence to a vector and then apply a Dense to it:
GlobalPooling:
You may use GlobalPooling layers like GlobalAveragePooling1D or GlobalMaxPooling1D, eg.:
model.add(Conv1D(filters=n_filter,
kernel_size=input_filter_length,
strides=1,
activation='relu',
input_shape=(20000,1)))
model.add(BatchNormalization())
model.add(GlobalMaxPooling1D(pool_size=4, strides=None))
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
Flattening:
You might colapse the whole sequence to a single vector using Flatten layer:
model.add(Conv1D(filters=n_filter,
kernel_size=input_filter_length,
strides=1,
activation='relu',
input_shape=(20000,1)))
model.add(BatchNormalization())
model.add(MaxPooling1D(pool_size=4, strides=None))
model.add(Flatten())
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))
RNN Postprocessing:
You could also add a recurrent layer on a top of your sequence and make it to return only the last output:
model.add(Conv1D(filters=n_filter,
kernel_size=input_filter_length,
strides=1,
activation='relu',
input_shape=(20000,1)))
model.add(BatchNormalization())
model.add(MaxPooling1D(pool_size=4, strides=None))
model.add(SimpleRNN(10, return_sequences=False))
model.add(Dense(1))
model.add(Activation("sigmoid"))

Conv1D has its output with 3 dimensions (and it will keep like that until the Dense layer).
Conv output: (BatchSize, Length, Filters)
For the Dense layer to output only one result, you need to add a Flatten() or Reshape((shape)) layer, to make it (BatchSize, Lenght) only.
If you call model.summary(), you will see exactly what shape each layer is outputting. You have to adjust the output to be exactly the same shape as the array you pass as the correct results. The None that appears in those shapes is the batch size and may be ignored.
About your model: I think you need more convolution layers, reducing the number of filters gradually, because condensing so much data in a single Dense layer does not usually bring good results.
About dimensions: keras layers toturial and samples