Yann LeCun's letter to CVPR chair after bad reviews on a Vision System that "learnt" features & reviews • /r/MachineLearning

Both your and meem1029's arguments ignore the actual history in computer vision. We know exactly how resistant the computer vision community was to learnt feature approaches in the early part of this decade. If, without direct knowledge of the actual submitted document, I had to estimate what is likely to be true when a neural network advocate in 2012 was stating they had a method which covered those 4 bases, and got rejected from CVPR with criticisms like "needs more SIFT" ... well, I would put a very high chance on the ANN person being in the right. There are tons of examples of this in science. Genomics advocates in the early naughties - have you ever heard the debates about "hypothesis free research"?