Caffe (Convolutional Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding) is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind. It is developed by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) and by community contributors.
Caffe’s expressive architecture encourages application and innovation. Models and optimization are defined by configuration without hard-coding. Switch between CPU and GPU by setting a single flag to train on a GPU machine then deploy to commodity clusters or mobile devices.Caffe’s extensible code fosters active development. In Caffe’s first year, it has been forked by over 1,000 developers and had many significant changes contributed back. Thanks to these contributors the framework tracks the state-of-the-art in both code and models.Speed makes Caffe perfect for research experiments and industry deployment. Caffe can processover 60M images per day with a single NVIDIA K40 GPU*. That’s 1 ms/image for inference and 4 ms/image for learning. We believe that Caffe is the fastest convnet implementation available.Caffe already powers academic research projects, startup prototypes, and even large-scale industrial applications in vision, speech, and multimedia. Join our community of brewers on the caffe-users group and Github.
This tutorial is designed to equip researchers and developers with the tools and know-how needed to incorporate deep learning into their work. Both the ideas and implementation of state-of-the-art deep learning models will be presented. While deep learning and deep features have recently achieved strong results in many tasks, a common framework and shared models are needed to advance further research and applications and reduce the barrier to entry. To this end we present the Caffe framework, public reference models, and working examples for deep learning. Join our tour from the 1989 LeNet for digit recognition to today’s top ILSVRC14 vision models. Follow along with do-it-yourself code notebooks. While focusing on vision, general techniques are covered.
Presenter Bio
Kate Saenko is an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department at UMass Lowell, and the director of the Computer Vision and Learning Group at UMass Lowell. Previously, Kate was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. Her research interests are in applications of machine learning to image and language understanding, multimodal perception for autonomous systems, and adaptive intelligent human-computer interfaces.
