April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 46m
English
Automatic recognition of handwritten digits is an important problem, which can be found in many practical applications. In this chapter, we will implement some feed-forward networks to address this problem.
To train and test the implemented models we use the MNIST database of handwritten digits.
The MNIST dataset is made of a training set of 60,000 examples, plus a test set of 10000 examples. An example of the data, as it is stored in the files of the examples, is shown in the following figure:

The source images were originally in black and white, but later, ...
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