Data Efficient Deep Learning with G-CNNS, a machine learning innovation

Post written by Jorn Peters & Taco Cohen When we humans see an object we've never seen before, we are almost immediately able to recognize the same object in many different situations. For example, when a child learns about its new teddy bear, it will still recognize the teddy if you turn it upside down. In contrast, while current-generation Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can learn to recognize the teddy bear eventually, they will need to see many examples of rotated teddy bears, each one labelled "teddy". This hunger for data, or "statistical inefficiency" is perhaps the most significant practical limitation of current deep learning technology. Many of our clients at Scyfer have problems that could be solved by deep learning, but don't have large annotated datasets.