recognition

Definition

The family of tasks that identify what an input is: image classification, object recognition, speech recognition. Output is typically drawn from a predefined set, which makes evaluation comparatively clean — there is a correct answer to compare against. It contrasts with generation, where quality is open-ended, and it is the problem class where deep learning first displaced hand-engineered pipelines.

Explainers using this term

• The ImageNet Moment — The Day Deep Learning WonImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
• Representing Sound — Mel Spectrograms and Audio TokensRobust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision
• The CNN Family Tree — From AlexNet to ResNet and EfficientNetVery Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition