A system and method facilitating pattern recognition is provided. The invention
includes a pattern recognition system having a convolutional neural network employing
feature extraction layer(s) and classifier layer(s). The feature extraction layer(s)
comprises convolutional layers and the classifier layer(s) comprises fully connected
layers. The pattern recognition system can be trained utilizing a calculated cross
entropy error. The calculated cross entropy error is utilized to update trainable
parameters of the pattern recognition system.