Chapter 10
Image Classification Tasks
“Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties.”
—Michael Faraday
The saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” works well for humans, but its application is much more complicated in software. Humans feature highly parallel brains capable of carrying extremely complex operations instantaneously. For computers, certain operations—standing their current internal architecture—require much more effort and/or a lot of training. The quintessential example is recognizing what’s featured in an image. This macro area can be further split into at least two more specific areas: image classification and object detection.
Image classification aims at automatically classifying images into one or more categories ...
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