You probably have a career. But hit the books for a graduate degree or take online certificate courses by night, and you could start a new career building on your past experience. Transfer learning is the same idea. This deep learning technique enables developers to harness a neural network used for one task and apply it to another domain.
Take image recognition. Let’s say that you want to identify horses, but there aren’t any publicly available algorithms that do an adequate job. With transfer learning, you begin with an existing convolutional neural network commonly used for image recognition of other animals, and you tweak it to train with horses.
