Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition: A Survey

• Published in: Applied sciences Vol. 12; no. 18; p. 8972
• Main Authors: Shafiq, Muhammad, Gu, Zhaoquan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-09-2022
• Subjects: Accuracy; Artificial intelligence; Classification; Deep learning; deep residual learning; deep residual learning for image recognition; Efficiency; Image classification; image processing; image recognition; Learning; Localization; Metadata; Neural networks; Surveys
• ISSN: 2076-3417; 2076-3417
• DOI: 10.3390/app12188972

Deep Residual Networks have recently been shown to significantly improve the performance of neural networks trained on ImageNet, with results beating all previous methods on this dataset by large margins in the image classification task. However, the meaning of these impressive numbers and their implications for future research are not fully understood yet. In this survey, we will try to explain what Deep Residual Networks are, how they achieve their excellent results, and why their successful implementation in practice represents a significant advance over existing techniques. We also discuss some open questions related to residual learning as well as possible applications of Deep Residual Networks beyond ImageNet. Finally, we discuss some issues that still need to be resolved before deep residual learning can be applied on more complex problems.