How to detect objects

Object detection requires the ability to distinguish between several classes of objects, and to decide how many, and which, of these objects are present in an image.

Google Street View house number dataset

A prominent example is Ian Goodfellow's identification of house numbers from Google's Street View dataset. It is required to identify the following:

• How many of up to five digits make up the house number
• The correct digit for each component
• The proper order of the constituent digits

The svhn_preprocessing notebook contains code to produce a simplified, cropped dataset that uses bounding box information to create regularly shaped 32 x 32 images containing the digits; the original images are...