10 Papers You Should Read to Understand Image Classification in the Deep Learning Era

Computer vision is a subject to convert images and videos into machine-understandable signals. With these signals, programmers can further control the behavior of the machine based on this high-level understanding. Among many computer vision tasks, image classification is one of the most fundamental ones. It not only can be used in lots of real products like Google Photo's tagging and AI content moderation but also opens a door for lots of more advanced vision tasks, such as object detection and video understanding. Due to the rapid changes in this field since the breakthrough of Deep Learning, beginners often find it too overwhelming to learn. Unlike typical software engineering subjects, there are not many great books about image classification using DCNN, and the best way to understand this field is though reading academic papers. But what papers to read? In this article, I'm going to introduce 10 best papers for beginners to read.