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How to Use Caffe Deep Learning Framework for Image Classification

In this article, you will get some information on how to use Caffe deep learning framework for image classification.

Caffe is a deep learning framework, with which you can complete image classification model training for deep learning by editing configuration files. In this blog, we will introduce how to process image classification with Caffe in Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning Platform for AI.

Users of Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning Platform for AI can directly enter the following paths in the Data Source Path field of deep learning components:

Testing data: oss://dl-images.oss-cn-shanghai-internal.aliyuncs.com/cifar10/caffe/images/cifar10_test_image_list.txt

Training data: oss://dl-images.oss-cn-shanghai-internal.aliyuncs.com/cifar10/caffe/images/cifar10_train_image_list.txt

Then you can follow the steps below:

  1. Convert the jpg format as the Caffe framework of deep learning currently only supports certain formats.
  2. Set up the Caffe configuration files.
  3. Upload the Solver and Net files to OSS, drag and drop the Caffe component to the canvas, and connect the component to the data source.
  4. Set the Solver OSS Path to the OSS path of the uploaded Solver file and then click Run.
  5. Image classification model files are generated in the model storage path on OSS.

For details, please go to Alibaba Cloud Machine Learning Platform for AI: Image Classification by Caffe.

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Dikky Ryan Pratama June 26, 2023 at 12:44 am

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