Which large-scale image database supplied the 1,000-class dataset used in the 2012 ILSVRC competition?

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ImageNet

ImageNet was created to provide a massive, human-labeled dataset for training visual recognition algorithms, eventually containing over 14 million images. The 2012 competition is often cited as the 'Big Bang' of deep learning because the victory of AlexNet proved that convolutional neural networks could drastically outperform traditional methods. This shift transformed the field of computer vision and sparked the current era of artificial intelligence.

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