A non-iterative radial basis function based quick convolutional neural network

In the past few years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved surprisingly good results for objects classification in real world images. However, training a CNN from scratch for large datasets is still a nightmare, when it comes to time and resources. The main reason for this problem is long iterative training process used in CNN's fully connected layer which is also called a classification layer. Therefore, in this paper we propose a novel approach to make the convolutional neural network quicker and more efficient for image classification tasks. The proposed approach consists of a convolutional feature extraction layer and a non-iterative radial basis function-based classification layer. The proposed approach has been evaluated on three benchmark datasets such as CIFAR-10, MNIST and Digit. The experimental results have demonstrated that the proposed approach can achieve same or higher accuracy in lesser time than the standard CNN.