Alexnet
After some more years of hiatus (even though Lecun was applying his networks to other tasks, such as face and object recognition), the exponential growth of both available structured data and raw processing power allowed the teams to grow and tune the models to an extent that could have been considered impossible just a few years before.
One of the elements that fostered innovation in the field was the availability of an image recognition benchmark called Imagenet, consisting of millions of images of objects organized into categories.
Starting in 2012, the Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (LSVRC) ran every year and helped researchers to innovate in network configurations, obtaining better and better results every year.
Alexnet ...
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