Introduction
In the rapid and exciting world of deep learning and computer vision, two certain foundational works truly set the standard for future research and build the path for exciting applications in Academia and industry. Two such impressive works are “ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks” and “Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition.” For simplicity, we will refer to them as AlexNet (RA1) and ResNet (RA2).
RA1, known as the AlexNet, was not only the winner of the ImageNet competition in 2012 but also redefined what machines could identify patterns and classifications. ImageNet, created by the Stanford Vision Lab, Stanford University, and Princeton University, is the industry’s definitive image database, containing hundreds to thousands of images, and has had a very important effect on CV (computer vision) and DL (deep learning). RA2, commonly referred to as the ResNet, revolutionized the changed the