UFLDL Exercise:Convolution and Pooling

这一节讲的是cnn里面最核心的两个操作：convolution和pooling，至于这两个操作的作用和具体的做法这里就不罗嗦了。可惜这个教程没有讲解cnn的bp算法，虽然说跟普通的多层神经网络思想是一样的，但对新手来说实现cnn的bp算法还是需要花一定时间去研究的~

STEP 2: Implement and test convolution and pooling

cnnConvolve.m

function convolvedFeatures = cnnConvolve(patchDim, numFeatures, images, W, b, ZCAWhite, meanPatch)
%cnnConvolve Returns the convolution of the features given by W and b with
%the given images
%
% Parameters:
%  patchDim - patch (feature) dimension
%  numFeatures - number of features
%  images - large images to convolve with, matrix in the form
%           images(r, c, channel, image number)
%  W, b - W, b for features from the sparse autoencoder
%  ZCAWhite, meanPatch - ZCAWhitening and meanPatch matrices used for
%                        preprocessing
%
% Returns:
%  convolvedFeatures - matrix of convolved features in the form
%                      convolvedFeatures(featureNum, imageNum, imageRow, imageCol)


numImages = size(images, 4);
imageDim = size(images, 1);
imageChannels = size(images, 3);


convolvedFeatures = zeros(numFeatures, numImages, imageDim - patchDim + 1, imageDim - patchDim + 1);


% Instructions:
%   Convolve every feature with every large image here to produce the 
%   numFeatures x numImages x (imageDim - patchDim + 1) x (imageDim - patchDim + 1) 
%   matrix convolvedFeatures, such that 
%   convolvedFeatures(featureNum, imageNum, imageRow, imageCol) is the
%   value of the convolved featureNum feature for the imageNum image over
%   the region (imageRow, imageCol) to (imageRow + patchDim - 1, imageCol + patchDim - 1)
%
% Expected running times: 
%   Convolving with 100 images should take less than 3 minutes 
%   Convolving with 5000 images should take around an hour
%   (So to save time when testing, you should convolve with less images, as
%   described earlier)


% -------------------- YOUR CODE HERE --------------------
% Precompute the matrices that will be used during the convolution. Recall
% that you need to take into account the whitening and mean subtraction
% steps

%根据题目提供的公式可以得到下面的两个变量&#