MNIST Database of Handwritten Digits
About
Well-known database of 70,000 handwritten digits (10 class labels) with each example represented as an image of 28 x 28 gray-scale pixels.
Preprocessing description:
The original NIST data was preprocessed by Yann LeCun and colleagues at AT&T Bell Labs: see http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ for details
Subject Area
Other
Instances
70,000
Features
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Data Types
Image
Tasks
Classification
Feature Types
Continuous
Features
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Introductory Paper
Gradient-based learning applied to document recognition
Y. LeCun, L. Bottou, Y. Bengio, P. Haffner. 1998.
Proceedings of the IEEE