This document discusses convolutional neural networks (CNNs). It explains that CNNs were inspired by research on the human visual system and take a similar approach to teach computers to identify objects in images. The document outlines the key components of CNNs, including convolutional and pooling layers to extract features from images, as well as fully connected layers to classify objects. It also notes that CNNs take pixel data as input and use many examples to generalize and make predictions, similar to how humans learn visual recognition.