/Kannada_MNIST

The main repository for the Kannada MNIST dataset

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Kannada_MNIST

Citing Kannada-MNIST

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:

Link to the Kaggle repo

Link to the Zenodo repo

Kannada-MNIST v/s MNIST comparisons

1: UMAP-plots

2: Explained variance by PCA dimensions

3: Pixel intensities