In 2006, Fei-Fei Li created the ImageNet dataset to support deep learning research.
The dataset took 2.5 years to complete and posed several challenges.
In 2010, Fei-Fei Li launched ILSVRC, an annual competition to test computer vision algorithms.
The breakthrough came in 2012 when Geoffrey Hinton introduced AlexNet, a CNN architecture that significantly outperformed traditional machine learning approaches.