Stone to Silicon

Artificial intelligence · 2009

ImageNet

Fei-Fei Li's team labels 14 million images, and the dataset changes the field.

ImageNet organised millions of web images into over 20,000 categories, labelled by crowd workers. Its annual challenge from 2010 on 1.2 million images and 1,000 classes became the arena where deep learning proved itself.

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