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by bonoboTP 2110 days ago
Convolution has been an established term in image processing long before convnets were invented in the 90s (or 80s or whenever). It's the same thing. It's useful to learn a bit of basic image processing, edge detection etc before jumping straight into the flashiest shiniest DL model with no basic foundations to conceptualize what is happening.

(Even before that it has been used in signal processing.)