If you use Kannada-MNIST in a peer reviewed paper, we would appreciate referencing it as:
Prabhu, Vinay Uday. "Kannada-MNIST: A new handwritten digits dataset for the Kannada language." arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01242 (2019)..
Bibtex entry:
@article{prabhu2019kannada,
title={Kannada-MNIST: A new handwritten digits dataset for the Kannada language},
author={Prabhu, Vinay Uday},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.01242},
year={2019}
}
I created this dataset with the help of many wonderful volunteers:
The Kannada-MNIST dataset was created an a drop-in substitute for the standard MNIST dataset. An example grid of images contributed by the volunteers look like: