VGG-19 pre-trained model for Keras

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##VGG19 model for Keras

This is the Keras model of the 19-layer network used by the VGG team in the ILSVRC-2014 competition.

It has been obtained by directly converting the Caffe model provived by the authors.

Details about the network architecture can be found in the following arXiv paper:

Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition
K. Simonyan, A. Zisserman
arXiv:1409.1556

In the paper, the VGG-19 model is denoted as configuration E. It achieves 7.5% top-5 error on ILSVRC-2012-val, 7.3% top-5 error on ILSVRC-2012-test.

Please cite the paper if you use the models.

###Contents:

model and usage demo: see vgg-19_keras.py

weights: vgg19_weights.h5

vgg-19_keras.py

from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers.core import Flatten, Dense, Dropout
from keras.layers.convolutional import Convolution2D, MaxPooling2D, ZeroPadding2D
from keras.optimizers import SGD
import cv2, numpy as np

def VGG_19(weights_path=None):
    model = Sequential()
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1),input_shape=(3,224,224)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(64, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(64, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(MaxPooling2D((2,2), strides=(2,2)))

    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(128, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(128, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(MaxPooling2D((2,2), strides=(2,2)))

    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(256, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(256, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(256, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(256, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(MaxPooling2D((2,2), strides=(2,2)))

    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(MaxPooling2D((2,2), strides=(2,2)))

    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(ZeroPadding2D((1,1)))
    model.add(Convolution2D(512, 3, 3, activation='relu'))
    model.add(MaxPooling2D((2,2), strides=(2,2)))

    model.add(Flatten())
    model.add(Dense(4096, activation='relu'))
    model.add(Dropout(0.5))
    model.add(Dense(4096, activation='relu'))
    model.add(Dropout(0.5))
    model.add(Dense(1000, activation='softmax'))

    if weights_path:
        model.load_weights(weights_path)

    return model

if __name__ == "__main__":
    im = cv2.resize(cv2.imread('cat.jpg'), (224, 224)).astype(np.float32)
    im[:,:,0] -= 103.939
    im[:,:,1] -= 116.779
    im[:,:,2] -= 123.68
    im = im.transpose((2,0,1))
    im = np.expand_dims(im, axis=0)

    # Test pretrained model
    model = VGG_19('vgg19_weights.h5')
    sgd = SGD(lr=0.1, decay=1e-6, momentum=0.9, nesterov=True)
    model.compile(optimizer=sgd, loss='categorical_crossentropy')
    out = model.predict(im)
    print np.argmax(out)

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Model Architecture: The Gist includes a Keras implementation of the VGG-19 architecture, which consists of 19 layers: 16 convolutional layers and 3 fully connected layers.

Weights: The pre-trained weights for the model are provided in the vgg19_weights.h5 file. These weights were obtained by directly converting the original Caffe model provided by the authors.

Usage: A usage demo is provided in the vgg-19_keras.py script, which demonstrates how to load the model and use it for predictions.

Citation: The original paper describing the VGG-19 architecture is:

Simonyan, K., & Zisserman, A. (2014). Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition. arXiv:1409.1556.

This indicates that the Gist is recognized as a valuable resource for obtaining a pre-trained VGG-19 model for Keras.

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jananidevi

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