So, you have decided to enter the field of machine learning. That's great!
Nowadays, machine learning is all around us—from protecting our email, to automatically tagging our friends in pictures, to predicting what movies we like. As a form of artificial intelligence, machine learning enables computers to learn through experience; to make predictions about the future using collected data from the past. On top of that, computer vision is one of today's most exciting application fields of machine learning, with deep learning and convolutional neural networks driving innovative systems such as self-driving cars and Google's DeepMind.
However, fret not; your application does not need to be as large-scale or world-changing as the previous examples in order to benefit from machine learning. In this chapter, we will talk about why machine...