Susann Meyer

Information processing in the Deep Neural Network: the content of the image (the handwritten number 3) is read. The intermediate layers take in the information one after the other. In the process, it is distributed to the artificial neurons. In the final stage, the output layer outputs a number, which should match the input value. The artificial neurons specialise: one neuron becomes active when, for example, a three is shown, another neuron becomes active when a nine is shown.
Figure: David Ehrlich, CIDBN, University of Göttingen

Patrick Cramer received the Bavarian Maximiliansorden. Photos: Bavarian state goverment