Project: Hand written letter recognition using backpropagation algorithm

Author: Michail - Panagiotis Bofos

Note: if you have Python and PyPlot installed the program will create its own error/epoch and success/epoch plots, anyhow the requested files will still be created.

*** Files train.txt and test.txt are recreated each time we run the application ***

*** an example set is given in the Results directory ***

For more information your can read the Report.pdf which explains decision such as the train & test set creation and the parameters used.

Instructions:

Windows: 
        1) javac *.java
        2) java Network parameters.txt

Unix/Linux:
        1) Run runLetters.sh parameters.txt - or - runLetters.sh parameters.txt -C [if you want to clean up the .class files created]
        NOTE: keep in mind to give runLetters.sh script running rights "chmod +x runLetters.sh"