Originally published at: GPUs Help Microsoft Build Record-Breaking Image Recognition System | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Thanks to the use of GPUs, Microsoft researchers achieved record results on ImageNet, a prestigious image-recognition benchmark. Compared to last year, Microsoft’s system cut the top-5 error rate by half, correctly classifying images within 1,000 pre-defined categories more than 96 percent of the time. Their system uses a 152-layer neural network, which is nearly five…