Monday, April 10, 2017

Post 1 - Introduction

Neural Network Thoughts

Throughout this semester, I have been reading quite a bit about neural networks, and have been really curious about them. Seeing the things that people have done with them, like voice recognition and replication, as well as image recognition makes them really useful if implemented in the way you want them to be used.

With all of this in mind, I knew I wanted to do something with neural networks. Reading through about neural networks, I decided to try and make my own handwritten text recognition network. Reading through everything, this seems like a good first step to implement. It is challenging enough that it will make me actually learn how neural networks work and perform, while being easy enough that it won't scare me away.

At the moment, I am looking into Neuroph, which is a java framework for Neural Networks. It seems that it is a well built framework for neural networks, and even has its own quick start for handwriting recognition.

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