Overview

This is a One-Shot Learning Handwritten Character Classifer written in Python using the SciPy library. This is the code for the One-Shot Learning episode of Fresh Machine Learning on Youtube. The code trains against a few examples of handwritten characters and then tries to classify characters correctly. The error rate is around 38%. If you want to try a state-of-the-art, better-than-human, one-shot learning library that you can apply to all sorts of data, check out this repo.

Dependencies

• Python - (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
• scipy - pip install scipy
• numpy pip install numpy
• Pillow pip install Pillow

Use pip to install any missing dependencies

Basic Usage

Step 1 - Run the code! It'll train against the handwritten character samples in the all_runs folder and then test it's classification ability. It should output an average error rate of around 38%.

python demo_classification.py

Credits

Credit for this demo code goes to the authors of the original BPL paper, this was the baseline demo code they used to compare their novel (much better) Matlab results against.