ConvNetJS vs. Fido vs. MatConvNet vs. Python Comparison Chart

ConvNetJS is a Javascript library for training deep learning models (neural networks) entirely in your browser. Open a tab and you're training. No software requirements, no compilers, no installations, no GPUs, no sweat. The library allows you to formulate and solve neural networks in Javascript, and was originally written by @karpathy. However, the library has since been extended by contributions from the community and more are warmly welcome. The fastest way to obtain the library in a plug-and-play way if you don't care about developing is through this link to convnet-min.js, which contains the minified library. Alternatively, you can also choose to download the latest release of the library from Github. The file you are probably most interested in is build/convnet-min.js, which contains the entire library. To use it, create a bare-bones index.html file in some folder and copy build/convnet-min.js to the same folder.

The VLFeat open source library implements popular computer vision algorithms specializing in image understanding and local features extraction and matching. Algorithms include Fisher Vector, VLAD, SIFT, MSER, k-means, hierarchical k-means, agglomerative information bottleneck, SLIC superpixels, quick shift superpixels, large scale SVM training, and many others. It is written in C for efficiency and compatibility, with interfaces in MATLAB for ease of use, and detailed documentation throughout. It supports Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. MatConvNet is a MATLAB toolbox implementing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision applications. It is simple, efficient, and can run and learn state-of-the-art CNNs. Many pre-trained CNNs for image classification, segmentation, face recognition, and text detection are available.