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Image Classification

The task of assigning a label to an image from a set of predefined categories.

Definition

The task of assigning a label to an image from a set of predefined categories. Was one of the first breakthroughs in deep learning — AlexNet won the ImageNet competition in 2012 and kicked off the modern AI era. Now considered a solved problem for most practical purposes.

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