12IMAGE CLASSIFICATION
Probably the most widely celebrated application of NNs is image classification. Indeed, the popularity of NNs today is largely due to some spectacular successes of NNs in image classification contests in the early 2000s. Earlier, the NN field had been treated largely as a curiosity and not a mainstream tool.
And the surge in popularity of NNs for image classification then had a feedback effect: the more NNs did well with images, the more image classification researchers used NNs as their tool, thus the more they refined use of NNs for imaging, which in turn led to more NN success in the contests.
In principle, any of the ...
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