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AlexNet wins ImageNet and deep learning takes off

ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Date
December 3, 2012
Category
Research breakthrough
Organization / Model
University of Toronto
Evidence
1 source · 1 evidence family

Krizhevsky, Sutskever and Hinton's AlexNet won the ImageNet challenge by a wide margin, training a deep convolutional network with GPUs, ReLU and dropout. It marked the moment deep learning took over computer vision.

Curator's note: Cross-checked against the NeurIPS paper page.

Curated sources · 1

  1. Original paper · NeurIPS 20122012-12-03

    ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

    papers.nips.cc

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