AI Glossary

Image Classification

A computer vision task that assigns one or more labels to an entire image, determining what category or categories the image belongs to.

Approaches

Modern image classification uses pre-trained vision models (ResNet, EfficientNet, ViT) fine-tuned on task-specific data. CLIP enables zero-shot classification by matching images against text descriptions.

Benchmarks

ImageNet: 1000-class classification with 1.2M images. CIFAR-10/100: Small-scale benchmarks. Top-1 accuracy on ImageNet exceeded human performance (95%+) by 2015 and continues to improve.

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Last updated: March 5, 2026