I don't have great links for this, but for something less technical, you might look at the blog posts from Kaggle competition winners. Here are a couple exampl

I don't have great links for this, but for something less technical, you might look at the blog posts from Kaggle competition winners. Here are a couple examples http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plankton.html http://benanne.github.io/2015/03/17/plankton.html http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/04/13/diagnosing-heart-diseases-with-deep-neural-networks-2nd-place-ira-korshunova/ http://blog.kaggle.com/2016/04/13/diagnosing-heart-diseases-... or check out what's available in a deep learning library like keras http://keras.io/preprocessing/image/ http://keras.io/preprocessing/image/ Sorry I don't have better academic references.