Building a Handwritten Digit Recognition System: A Step-by-Step Journey
BLOG Website: https://math156runpeng.blogspot.com/2024/12/building-handwritten-digit-recognition.html Welcome to my blog! Today, I want to share an exciting project I recently completed: building a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to recognize handwritten digits using the MNIST dataset. This project not only deepened my understanding of machine learning and computer vision but also gave me hands-on experience in deploying an interactive web application for digit recognition. Project Overview The goal of this project was to create a machine learning model capable of identifying handwritten digits (0-9) with high accuracy. Using the MNIST dataset, which consists of 70,000 grayscale images of handwritten digits, we trained a CNN to classify the images. To make the project more engaging, I also developed a Streamlit-powered web application where users can upload their digit images and get instant predictions. Step 1: Data Preparation The MNIST dataset comes pre-labeled, with each image b...