CIFAR-10 Competition Winners: Interviews with Dr. Ben Graham, Phil Culliton, & Zygmunt Zając

http://blog.kaggle.com/2015/01/02/cifar-10-competition-winners-interviews-with-dr-ben-graham-phil-culliton-zygmunt-zajac/

Dr. Ben Graham

Dr. Ben Graham is an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Complexity at the University of Warwick. With a categorization accuracy of 0.95530 he ranked first place.

Congratulations on winning the CIFAR-10 competition! How do you feel about your victory?

Thank you! I am very pleased to have won, and quite frankly pretty amazed at just how competitive the competition was.

When I first saw the competition, I did not think the test error would go below about 8%. I assumed 32x32 pixels just wasn't enough information to identify objects very reliably. As it turned out, everyone in the top 10 got below 7%, which is roughly on a par with human performance.