Feature Map - rugbyprof/5443-Data-Mining GitHub Wiki

The feature map is the output of one filter applied to the previous layer. A given filter is drawn across the entire previous layer, moved one pixel at a time. Each position results in an activation of the neuron and the output is collected in the feature map. You can see that if the receptive field is moved one pixel from activation to activation, then the field will overlap with the previous activation by (field width - 1) input values.

For instance, In a 32 × 32 image , dragging the 5 × 5 receptive field across the input image data with a stride width of 1 will result in a feature map of 28 × 28 (32–5+1 × 32–5+1) output values or 784 distinct activations per image. For more info refer cadence’s article[1]