Generative Deep Learning with Python

Chapter 6: Project: Handwritten Digit Generation with VAEs

 

Welcome to Chapter 6! In this chapter, we will put theory into practice by working on a project to generate handwritten digits using Variational Autoencoders (VAEs). This project will serve as a hands-on guide and reinforcement of the concepts we have learned in the previous chapter.

Creating a model capable of generating realistic handwritten digits could find applications in a number of areas, from data augmentation for improving performance of other machine learning models, to solving CAPTCHA challenges, to simply demonstrating the power of generative models in a visually impressive way.

The chapter will proceed as follows:

1. Data Collection and Preprocessing
2. Model Creation
3. Training ...