As of 2017, the problem of "computer vision" meant that the problem of finding patterns in an image can be considered as solved, and this problem has an impact on our lives. For instance:
- The paper Dermatologist-level classification of skin cancer with deep neural networks, Andre Esteva, Brett Kuprel, Roberto A. Novoa, Justin Ko, Susan M. Swetter, Helen M. Blau & Sebastian Thrun, 2017 https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7639/full/nature21056.html trains a CNN using a dataset of 129,450 clinical images consisting of 2,032 different diseases. They test the results against 21 board-certified dermatologists on biopsy-proven clinical images with two critical binary classification use cases: keratinocyte carcinomas versus ...