Inception Network (GoogLeNet)

The Inception Network, introduced by Szegedy et al. at Google in 2015 and submitted to CVPR under the name GoogLeNet, is a 22-layer deep convolutional neural network designed for large-scale image recognition. Its defining contribution is the Inception module, which applies convolutions of multiple kernel sizes in parallel and concatenates their outputs, enabling the network to capture spatial features at different scales simultaneously without a proportional increase in computational cost.