Deep Learning: Methods and Applications

This book provides an overview of general deep learning methodology and its applications to a variety of signal and information processing tasks. The application areas are chosen with the following three criteria in mind: expertise or knowledge of the authors; the application areas that have already been transformed by the successful use of deep learning technology, such as speech recognition and computer vision; and the application areas that have the potential to be impacted significantly by deep learning and that are benefitting from concentrated research efforts, including natural language and text processing, information retrieval, and multimodal information processing empowered by multi-task deep learning.