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Computer vision

Convolutional networks read documents

Convolutional networks and gradient-based training connected representation learning with document recognition.

Yann LeCun, Léon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio and Patrick Haffner

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The contribution

The paper brought together convolutional architectures, learning methods, and document-recognition systems. It showed how trainable components could be combined into systems for recognizing characters and interpreting documents, including bank-check applications.

What this does not establish

The work concerned specific recognition tasks and systems. It did not introduce all convolutional ideas or establish general visual understanding.

Why this date?

The paper appeared in November 1998.

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