[AndrewKemendo]

That's my point. With these OTS modules they are only returning on known classifiers.

The system has to segment before it classifies. That isn't returned to the user, but gradient descent is happening in the background. Like I said, it's a nitpick but important if you're trying to really build novel CV applications.

One of my gripes with people implementing pre-built modules from TF is that you don't really build any of the hard stuff, and it's pre-trained so not much learning is happening. You can't for example build RL systems with off the shelf TF implementations.

[bernardopires]

Do you understand how convolutional neural networks work? There is no segmentation involved here at all. The input are the raw pixels of the image. The output is the probability this image belongs to one of the categories the network is capable of predicting.

Also gradient descent has nothing to do with segmentation at all, I don't understand what you're talking about. Gradient descent is used to find the set of weights that minimizes the error. This is standard in training neural networks of any kind using backpropagation.