Machine Learning for Mobile

Defining the problem statement

We are going to tackle the problem of recognizing handwritten digits through a machine learning model that we'll implement in an iOS mobile application. The first step is to have the database of handwritten digits that can be used for model training and testing.

The MNIST digits dataset (http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/) provides a database of handwritten digits, and has a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. It is a subset of a larger set that's available from MNIST. The digits have been size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image. It is a good database for people who want to learn techniques and pattern recognition methods on real-world data while exerting minimal effort ...