Fei-Fei Li
Creator of ImageNet
The dataset that started the deep learning era
Rating
95Impact score
Domains
Computer visionDatasetsHuman-centred AI
Scouting report
Built ImageNet when the field believed better algorithms mattered more than more data, and gave it away. The 2012 competition on that dataset is the moment deep learning stopped being a minority position. Founded Stanford HAI, served as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud, and has pushed hard on who gets a say in how this technology is built.
Curator’s note
Proved the data was the bottleneck, then handed the data to everyone.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Fei-Fei Li by ITU Pictures, licensed CC BY 2.0.
Sources
- 01Fei-Fei Li en.wikipedia.org
- 02ImageNet image-net.org