This document contains summaries of several topics:
1) It discusses deep learning and how stacking many simple functions can lead to complex models for tasks like image classification.
2) It notes some growing trends in deep learning research like an increasing number of papers being submitted to top conferences.
3) It lists some major companies investing heavily in deep learning research like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon.
4) It provides an overview of the author's research which aims to synthesize optical flow from pre-trained disparity estimation networks since optical flow data can be difficult to obtain.