In this thesis, we discuss the idea of quantizing deep descriptors returned by the hidden layers of convolutional neural networks. The aim of this approach is to reduce the number of bits and, consequently the amount of information in order to send this information more quickly and efficiently through the network to the cloud, where the processing would continue. This would allow us to compress the input data in a controlled way, distribute the processing between the two systems and perhaps even to partially anonymise the raw data. In the scope of our thesis, we ran an experiment with a categorisation model trained on two standard image collections. The results of the experiment show that such a split of image processing is possible. The amount of data for transfering the quantized descriptors is lower than in if we were to use a lossless image codec. In the discussion, we also describe the shortcomings of our experimental design and make suggestions for further research in this area.
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