Capsule Networks: The New Deep Learning Network – Towards Data Science

Convolutional Networks have been hugely successful in the field of deep learning and they are the primary reason why deep learning is so popular right now! They have been very successful, but they have drawbacks in their basic architecture, causing them to not work very well for some tasks. CNN's detect features in images and learn how to recognize objects with this information. Layers near the start detecting really simple features like edges and layers that are deeper can detect more complex features like eyes, noses, or an entire face. It then uses all of these features which it has learned, to make a final prediction.