Dataset
ImageNet
1.4M-image, 1000-class image-classification benchmark that catalysed the deep-learning era.
Definition
ImageNet (2009) gave the field a hard, standardised vision benchmark. AlexNet's 2012 win on ImageNet triggered the modern deep-learning era. Pre-training on ImageNet remains a strong starting point for downstream vision tasks even with ViTs and CLIP available.
Common use cases
- Image classification benchmarks
- Vision pre-training
- Education