Introduction to CNNs & Computer Vision Applications

So far, we have looked at standard Deep Feed-Forward Networks (Multi-Layer Perceptrons or MLPs). These networks are fantastic for processing structured tabular data (like predicting house prices from a spreadsheet).

However, when researchers tried to use MLPs to analyze images, they ran into massive, fundamental problems. The solution to these problems changed the world of Artificial Intelligence forever: The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN).

1. The Problem with Standard Neural Networks for Images