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Real time numbers recognition (MNIST) on an iPhone with CoreML

by uberneo on 11/8/18, 11:28 AM with 19 comments

• by yeldarb on 11/8/18, 3:23 PM

  Neat walkthrough!

  Last year I actually made an applied-CoreML app to solve sudoku puzzles where MNIST came in very handy.

  I wrote about it here: https://blog.prototypr.io/behind-the-magic-how-we-built-the-...

• by rahimnathwani on 11/8/18, 4:23 PM

  "Apple ... provides a ... helper library called coremltools that we can use to ... convert scikit-learn models, Keras and XGBoost models to CoreML"

  Awesome.

• by a_c on 11/8/18, 3:45 PM

  As someone with not much experience in ML, how to handle when there is no number present or if a number is present?

• by zackmorris on 11/8/18, 9:01 PM

  The scrollbar distance confirms a suspicion that I've held for some time: that writing a machine learning algorithm is of similar complexity to developing an iOS app in Xcode!