I have been using the following model for image classification. I wonder why there is 512
Dense layer before the Dense3. Should I just use only Dense3? instead of Dense512-Dense3?
model = tf.keras.models.Sequential([
# Note the input shape is the desired size of the image 150x150 with 3 bytes color
# This is the first convolution
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(64, (3,3), activation='relu', input_shape=(150, 150, 3)),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2, 2),
# The second convolution
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(64, (3,3), activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2,2),
# The third convolution
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(128, (3,3), activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2,2),
# The fourth convolution
tf.keras.layers.Conv2D(128, (3,3), activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.MaxPooling2D(2,2),
# Flatten the results to feed into a DNN
tf.keras.layers.Flatten(),
tf.keras.layers.Dropout(0.5),
# 512 neuron hidden layer
tf.keras.layers.Dense(512, activation='relu'),
tf.keras.layers.Dense(3, activation='softmax')
])