How to Use ResNet-50

ResNet-50, introduced in 2015 by Microsoft Research, is a prominent image classification model architecture that achieved first place in the ILVRC 2015 image classification task. It is designed to identify any of 1,000 classes from the ImageNet-1k dataset. Despite the emergence of new architectures like Vision Transformer and FastViT, ResNet-50 remains a significant model in computer vision history. It can be installed using the HuggingFace Transformers Python package, and users can load the model for image classification tasks by following specific code instructions. Although newer models such as OpenAI's CLIP offer zero-shot classification without fine-tuning, ResNet-50 is still recognized for its foundational role in image classification. The guide provides a detailed walkthrough on setting up ResNet-50 and demonstrates its application in classifying images, such as identifying a "forklift" in an image through code execution.