Deep Learning Primer

by Frank Tobe

02 April 2015

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3D brain scans analysis by applying Deep Learning algorithms – photo : Scyfer

The technology that unlocks intelligence from big data – deep learning – is explained in this video by Max Welling, a professor at the University of Amsterdam, and a founder of the Dutch deep learning startup Scyfer.

Even though I have a software and systems background in demographic data, this short video was a necessary and easily understood primer in this new science of deep learning.

tags: Algorithm AI-Cognition, c-Research-Innovation, scyfer, video

Frank Tobe is the owner and publisher of The Robot Report, and is also a panel member for Robohub's Robotics by Invitation series.

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