Check out this blog post about deep learning for computer vision applications [1]; it describes very well the historical development and the current advances. I

Check out this blog post about deep learning for computer vision applications [1]; it describes very well the historical development and the current advances. In short, not too much changed from LeCuns ConvNets in the 80s. Disclaimer, I wrote this article. [1] http://chaosmail.github.io/deeplearning/2016/10/22/intro-to-deep-learning-for-computer-vision/ http://chaosmail.github.io/deeplearning/2016/10/22/intro-to-...