Jumping into the Deep End

In my 24th year of MATLAB and toolbox development and design, I am excited to be tackling this new project. Deep learning refers to a collection of machine learning techniques that are based on neural networks that have a large number of layers (hence "deep"). By training these networks on labeled data sets, they can achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on classification tasks using images, text, and sound as inputs. Because of my background in image processing, I have followed the rapid progress in deep learning over the past several years with great interest. There is much that I would like to learn and share with you about the area, especially with respect to exploring deep learning ideas with MATLAB.