TASK FOUR

SVM

• SVM, SMO, convex optimization theory
• implement:SVM / SVC
• choose an Kaggle competition, use SVM, compare with Scikit Learn or libsvm

OCR

• data preprocessing, model building, training and testing, improvement.

daatset：IIIT5K http://cvit.iiit.ac.in/projects/SceneTextUnderstanding/IIIT5K.html

model reference：

CNN extracts image features
RNN processes sequence
CTC generates a sequence of words for the sequence classification

requirements：

• use TensorFlow / PyTorch
• choose proper metric

reference：

[1] An End-to-End Trainable Neural Network for Image-Based Sequence Recognition and Its Application to Scene Text Recognition

[2] Reading Scene Text in Deep Convolutional Sequences