“Just like to HEAR is not the same as to LISTEN, to TAKE PICTURES is not the same as to SEE.”
-- Fei-Fei Li
Hello! I’m very excited that you are here! You are making a great decision to learn deep learning and computer vision. The timing couldn’t be more perfect. Computer vision is one of the areas that’s been advancing rapidly thanks to the huge AI and deep learning advances that took place in the past few years. Neural networks are now allowing self-driving cars to figure out where other cars and pedestrians are to navigate around them. We are witnessing computer vision applications in our daily lives more and more with all the smart devices in our home -- from security cameras to door locks. It is also making face recognition work much better than ever before and we can see that smartphones are able to recognize faces to unlock a phone and smart locks can unlock doors. I wouldn’t be surprised if some time in the near future your couch or television is able to recognize specific people in your house and react according to their personal preferences. It’s not just about recognizing objects -- deep learning has given computers the power to imagine and create new things like art that wasn’t there before, new objects, and even unique, realistic faces of human beings.