Deep Learning Mini Project Report
Deep Learning Mini Project Report
2. Objective
The main objective of this project is to design and implement a Convolutional Neural
Network to classify images from a standard dataset such as CIFAR-10 or MNIST, and
evaluate its performance.
3. Methodology
The methodology followed in this project includes the following steps:
1. Dataset Selection: Choosing a well-known dataset like MNIST or CIFAR-10.
2. Data Preprocessing: Normalizing the images and converting labels to categorical format.
3. Model Design: Building a CNN architecture using layers such as Conv2D, MaxPooling2D,
Flatten, and Dense.
4. Training: Using a training dataset to train the CNN model with a defined loss function and
optimizer.
5. Evaluation: Testing the trained model on a test dataset and evaluating the accuracy and
loss.
6. Visualization: Plotting the training and validation accuracy and loss over epochs.
6. Conclusion
This mini project demonstrates the effectiveness of Convolutional Neural Networks in
image classification tasks. By properly designing and training a CNN model, high accuracy
can be achieved even with relatively simple architectures. Future work can involve
exploring advanced techniques like data augmentation, dropout, and transfer learning to
further improve performance.
7. References
- Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville. Deep Learning. MIT Press, 2016.
- TensorFlow and Keras documentation.
- LeCun, Y., Bottou, L., Bengio, Y., & Haffner, P. (1998). Gradient-based learning applied to
document recognition.