Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset

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Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset

What is Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset?

The Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset was generated from the preprocessing program made available by NIST. The dataset was extracted from normalized bitmaps of handwritten digits of a preprinted form. It was generated with the help of 43 people, 30 contributed to the training set, and the remaining to the test set. After dividing 32×32 bitmaps, the authors have converted them into an 8×8 input matrix (each element is an integer in the range 0..16). This dataset’s dimensionality has been reduced and contains invariance in small distortions.

Downloading Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset in Python

Instead of downloading the Optical Handwritten Digits in Python, you can effortlessly load it in Python via our Deep Lake open-source with just one line of code.

Load Optical Handwritten Digits Train Dataset Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load('hub://activeloop/optical-handwritten-digits-train')

Load Optical Handwritten Digits Test Dataset Subset in Python

				
					import deeplake
ds = deeplake.load('hub://activeloop/optical-handwritten-digits-test')

Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset Structure

Data Fields

images: tensor containing the image
labels: tensor containing labels of a corresponding image

How to use Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset with PyTorch and TensorFlow in Python

Train a model on Optical Handwritten Digits dataset with PyTorch in Python

Let’s use Deep Lake built-in PyTorch one-line dataloader to connect the data to the compute:

				
					dataloader = ds.pytorch(num_workers=0, batch_size=4, shuffle=False)

Train a model on Optical Handwritten Digits dataset with TensorFlow in Python

				
					dataloader = ds.tensorflow()

Additional Information about Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset

Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset Description

Homepage: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/optical+recognition+of+handwritten+digits

Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset Contributors

E. Alpaydin, C. Kaynak

Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset Licensing Information

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Optical Handwritten Digits Dataset Citation Information

				
					@article{alpaydin1998optical,
  title={Optical recognition of handwritten digits data set},
  author={Alpaydin, E and Kaynak, C},
  journal={UCI Machine Learning Repository},
  year={1998}
}