Image classification decides what an entire frame depicts as a single category. It does not say where the object is, only that it is present. It underpins content tagging and is the historic root from which detection and segmentation grew.
The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
Image classification is the simplest way to tag a frame and often all a moderation or tagging feature needs. This volume covers image classification in its computer vision section: classifiers versus detectors and segmenters, pre-processing for ML, model artifacts, and deployment topologies. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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