AI engineering glossary · Computer vision

What is R-CNN?

R-CNN: Regions with CNN features, an early deep detector that generated region proposals, ran a CNN on each cropped region and classified it with SVMs. It was accurate but very slow because each region was processed separately.

Level: advancedTopic: Computer vision

R-CNN: an example

R-CNN would push about 2,000 cropped regions through a CNN for a single photo.

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R-CNN is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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