---title:Im2col Layer---# im2col* File type: `Im2col`* Header: [`./include/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.hpp`](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/include/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.hpp)* CPU implementation: [`./src/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.cpp`](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/src/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.cpp)* CUDA GPU implementation: [`./src/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.cu`](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/blob/master/src/caffe/layers/im2col_layer.cu)`Im2col` is a helper for doing the image-to-column transformation that you mostlikely do not need to know about. This is used in Caffe's original convolutionto do matrix multiplication by laying out all patches into a matrix.