Reading and courses
Where to dig next
Foundations
- · Goodfellow et al. — Deep Learning
- · Bishop — Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
- · Stanford CS231n — convolutional networks for visual recognition
- · FastAI part 1 — practical deep learning
Detection-specific
- · Carion et al. (2020) — DETR
- · Zhao et al. (2024) — RT-DETR
- · Roboflow blog — RF-DETR series
- · Ultralytics docs — YOLO families
- · COCO mAP definition (cocodataset.org)
Worked examples and side projects
- · Signature detection blog — full detection pipeline, YOLO vs DETR vs RF-DETR, with published model and dataset.
- · PEFT methods — LoRA, adapters, prefix-tuning: fine-tuning foundation models cheaply.
- · cafedl — Java deep-learning library written from scratch; an autograd engine you can read end-to-end.