Deep Learning and Neural Networks Primer: Basic Concepts for Beginners

Image recognition is important for many of the advanced technologies we use today. It is used in visual surveillance, guiding autonomous vehicles and even identifying ailments from X-ray images. Most modern smartphones also come with image recognition apps that convert handwriting into typed words. In this chapter we will look at how we can train an ANN algorithm to recognize images of handwritten digits. We will be using the images from the famous MNIST (Mixed National Institute of Standards and Technology) database. Note that this post is written by Kenneth Soo.