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1. Definition

 

1. Definition

1.1. What is Deep Learning?

 

“Deep learning is the state-of-the-art approach across many domains, including object recognition and identification, text understating and translation, question answering, and more. In addition, it is expected to play a key role in many new usages deemed almost impossible before, such as fully autonomous driving”, Ronny Ronen

It looks like a lot of fun, right? I am sure you already know what you need Deep Learning for, which I bet is something fascinating. So without making it longer… Let’s start diving!!

I will try to make this manual as concise and self-explanatory as possible. I still lack of experience so I apologize in advance if there is anything that is not clear or does not work. If you let me know I’ll do my best to improve the explanation or fix the problems as soon as I can.

By the way, in this handeable manual we can find a glossary of terms in the end. I will try to set in italics (or other marking?) everytime a word appears and it is included in the glossary as main definition. Please feel free to navigate through it, report if there is any mistake/missing definition, and constructive comments are more than appreciated.

 

1.2. What is it used for?

 

The main current applications of Deep Learning are:

- Image Recognition: yes, the one Facebook uses to suggest tags in the pictures could be an example

- Natural Language Processing: Google Translate! It is able to recognize & translate whole sentences at a time (sometimes better than others, we should say) instead of word-by-word.

- Visual Art Processing: in order to identify a specific style period of a given painting, for instance.

- Drug Discovery and Toxicology: it can be used to predict biomolecular targets and anticipate toxic effects.

Other applications can be found in:

JASON BROWNLEE - 8 Deep Learning Applications

MEDIUM - 15 Deep Learning Applications

YARON HADAD - 30 Deep Learning Applications

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