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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners
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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Beginners

by David Dindi, Patrick D. Smith
October 2018
Beginner
362 pages
9h 32m
English
Packt Publishing
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Overview of CNNs

CNNs are one of the most influential classes of networks in the history of deep learning. Invented by Yann LeCun (now head of Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research), CNNs really came into their own in 2012, with the introduction of deep Convolutional Neural Networks by Alex Krizhevsky.

Plain old neural networks don't scale well to images; CNNs adapt regular old feedforward neural networks by adding one or more convolutional layers as the input layer to the network. These convolutions are specifically designed to take in two-dimensional input, such as images or even sound, as illustrated in the following diagram: 

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