Table 2.

Technical specification of proposed architecture.

No. of channels	04
Layers/Channel	Output size/channel	Block description/Channel
Convolution	112 by 112	Kernel 7 × 7 stride 2
Pooling	56 by 56	3 × 3 Max.Pooling, stride 2 × 2
Dense block 1	56 by 56	[1 × 1 Conv] × 6 [3 × 3 Conv] × 6
Transition 1	56 × 56	Batch normalization layer and a 1 × 1 convolution layer followed by 2 × 2 average pooling layer
	28 × 28
Dense block 2	28 × 28	1 × 1 Conv] × 12 [3 × 3 Conv] × 12
Transition 2	28 × 28	Batch normalization layer and a 1 × 1 convolution layer followed by 2 × 2 average pooling layer
	14 × 14
Dense block 3	14 × 14	1 × 1 Conv] × 24 [3 × 3 Conv] × 24
Transition layer 3	14 × 14	Batch normalization layer and a 1 × 1 convolution layer followed by 2 × 2 average pooling layer
	7 × 7
Dense block 4	7 × 7	1 × 1 Conv] × 16 [3 × 3 Conv] × 16
Classification layer	1 × 1	7 × 7 global average pool
	1000D fully connected, SoftMax