Introducing MobileNet
At this point, we need to take a small detour into the world of CNNs. MobileNet is a CNN model, so having a little understanding of what a CNN is helps us to understand how it relates to the problem we are solving here. Don't worry, we aren't going to dig into the mathematics behind CNNs, but knowing a little bit about what they do will help us appreciate what they bring to the table for us.
CNN classifiers work by taking in an input image (potentially from a video stream), processing the image, and classifying it under predefined categories. In order to understand how they work, we need to take a step back and think about the problem from a computer's point of view. Suppose we have a picture of a horse. To a computer, ...
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