I am learning Convolutional Neural Networks and after studying basics such as their working, activation functions and other such details I tried to apply them on image category classification task.
I was unable to design an architecture which can perform reasonably good on my dataset and I got accuracies below 40% with upto 50 convolution, pooling, normalization and RLU layers in different configurations. When I tried GoogleNet and AlexNet, I got accuracies of 97.8% and 92.4% respectively. Can you guide me to some tutorial which can explain the considerations to design an effective neural network which can perform comparably.
Dataset: The dataset contains 10 classes and 50,000 images in total.