A very old idea about how to build a
perceptual system
Start by learning some features of the raw sensory input.
The features should capture interesting regularities in the
input.
Then learn another layer of features by treating the first
layer of features as sensory data.
Keep learning layers of features until the highest level
“features” are so complex that they make it very easy to
recognize objects, speech ….
Fifty years later, we can finally make this work!