Transfer Learning and Image Classification with ML.NET

Historically, image classification is a problem that popularized deep neural networks especially visual types of neural networks – Convolutional neural networks (CNN). We will not go into details about what are CNNs and how they work. However, we can say that CNNs were popularized after they broke a record in The ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) back in 2012. This competition evaluates algorithms for object detection and image classification at a large scale. The dataset that they provide contains 1000 image categories and over 1.2 million images.