EdwinMChouette/DogBreedClassifier

Udacity project / Deep Learning degree

Project Overview

This is one of my projects for my Udacity Deep Learning Nanodegree. Here we workd with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN's). In this project I am going to build several models that will allow me identify humans and dogs in pictures as well as identify the breed of a canine. If supplied an image of a human, the code will identify the resembling dog breed.

Project Instructions

Instructions

1. Clone the repository and navigate to the downloaded folder.

   	git clone https://github.com/udacity/deep-learning-v2-pytorch.git
   	cd deep-learning-v2-pytorch/project-dog-classification
   

NOTE: if you are using the Udacity workspace, you DO NOT need to re-download the datasets in steps 2 and 3 - they can be found in the /data folder as noted within the workspace Jupyter notebook.

2. Download the dog dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in the repo, at location path/to/dog-project/dogImages. The dogImages/ folder should contain 133 folders, each corresponding to a different dog breed.

3. Download the human dataset. Unzip the folder and place it in the repo, at location path/to/dog-project/lfw. If you are using a Windows machine, you are encouraged to use 7zip to extract the folder.

4. Make sure you have already installed the necessary Python packages according to the README in the program repository.

5. Open a terminal window and navigate to the project folder. Open the notebook and follow the instructions.

   	jupyter notebook dog_app.ipynb
   

NOTE: While some code has already been implemented to get you started, you will need to implement additional functionality to successfully answer all of the questions included in the notebook. Unless requested, do not modify code that has already been included.

NOTE: In the notebook, you will need to train CNNs in PyTorch. If your CNN is taking too long to train, feel free to pursue one of the options under the section Accelerating the Training Process below.

(Optionally) Accelerating the Training Process

If your code is taking too long to run, you will need to either reduce the complexity of your chosen CNN architecture or switch to running your code on a GPU. If you'd like to use a GPU, you can spin up an instance of your own:

Amazon Web Services

You can use Amazon Web Services to launch an EC2 GPU instance. (This costs money, but enrolled students should see a coupon code in their student resources.)

Evaluation

Your project will be reviewed by a Udacity reviewer against the CNN project rubric. Review this rubric thoroughly and self-evaluate your project before submission. All criteria found in the rubric must meet specifications for you to pass.

Project Submission

Your submission should consist of the github link to your repository. Your repository should contain:

• The dog_app.ipynb file with fully functional code, all code cells executed and displaying output, and all questions answered.
• An HTML or PDF export of the project notebook with the name report.html or report.pdf.

Please do NOT include any of the project data sets provided in the dogImages/ or lfw/ folders.

Ready to submit your project?

Click on the "Submit Project" button in the classroom and follow the instructions to submit!