Analysis of normalization effect for earthquake events classification

This paper presents an effective structure by applying various normalization to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for seismic event classification. Normalization techniques can not only improve the learning speed of neural networks , but also show robustness to noise. In this paper, we analyze the effect of input data normalization and hidden layer normalization on the deep learning model for seismic event classification. In addition an effective model is derived through various experiments according to the structure of the applied hidden layer. As a result of various experiments, the model that applied input data normalization and weight normalization to the first hidden layer showed the most stable performance improvement.