Showing posts with label Embedded Vision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Embedded Vision. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2015

Jeff Bier is promoting CNN

----  Jeff Bier is promoting CNN! ------

Thesis: Neural Networks? not again!

I used to say " when I hear the word RISC (or speech recog) I draw my guns". Things have slightly changed so instead theses days, my current one is "when I hear Neural Network ..."
I never had a really good fight with NN because I never met NN in the open. 
NN was an esoteric digital technique (like many others) found in the DSP conference papers. Over the years I have kept NN implementation of DCT, FFT, MAC, etc.. and never had a chance to take a look.
But recently I have seen  many micro-controllers promoting the technique. 

Antithesis: Neural Networks are alive and well

  1. Matlab has a Toolbox
    1. and maybe much more than that. 
  2.  Jeff Bier put his money where his mouth is:
    1. The Embedded Vision Alliance invites you to attend an exciting event --> see below:
Synthesis: No thanks, I pass on that one. I still think it is bleeding edge.