There are a wide variety of models used for image classification. Popular choices of models for image classification tasks include YOLOv5, the Vision Transformer, and Resnet34.
Image classification is useful in any computer vision task where you need to assign content into one of a limited number of categories. Here are a few examples of real-world use cases for image classification:
Image classification is a computer vision task where images are assigned a label based on their contents. Only one label is assigned per image. For example, consider a dataset that classifies tree species. One photo may be given the class “birch” and another “fir”.