Well, for Junior Data Scientists or ML/DL engineers trying to gain foothold in the industry requires to have either previous work experience or solid projects that showcase their skills. So, the goal behind is if you are on self-study route, or going to college or doing bootcamps or want to apply theoretical knowledge from academic papers than Capstone projects are crucial first step.
Start with picking one project that you like, define the problem, goals and objectivies, if you are looking to create web application, than understand your product vision, define clear goals for MVP, and break down requirements for MVP into user stories and release them as bi-weekly Sprints.
- Traffic Sign Classification - Read this tutorial
- Solve Image Captcha - Example 1,Example 2
- Automatic Image Tagging API (e.g. Imagga, or take it further and create App that automatically organize Photos
- Detecting NSFW Images API
- Food Image Classification API (See Yelp Dataset)
- Fashion Apparels Recommender
- Music Generation (Deep Jazz, Folk tunes, etc..)
- Detect Diabetic Retinopathy
- Color B/W Images API
- Human Gait Prediction
- Gesture Recognition
- Attendance Tracking System App
- Urban Sound Classification
- Detect Heart Disease App
- Mood / Emotion Detection API
- Speech Emotion Detection - Dataset
- Aerial Cactus Identification API
- Ultrasound Nerve Segmentation App
- Gender Recognition using Voice
- Celebrity Recognition using Voice
- Smoking detection from Videos
- Neural Style Transfer
- Gender + Age detection using Image (Face) - Face Image Project
- Driver Drowsiness Detection
- Human Activity Recognition with Video Classification
- Notes Dictation App (Transcript audio to text)
- Earthquake predictor on sensor data
- Predictive Maintenance on sensor data
- Parkison's Disease Detection
- Oscar Prediction App
- Gihub Commit Analysis / Activity
- Uber Data Analysis
- Credit Card Fraud Detection
- Crypto Blockchain App
- Kickstarter Sucess predictor
- AirBnB price predictor
- Fake News detection - Read this blog
- Text Summarizer
- Nearest Document Search App
- Sub-reddit predictor
- Twitter Sentimental Analysis
- Customer Segmentation
- Language Translator
- Detecting Spam Reviews, Opinion Mining
- Fine Food Reviews
- Opinion Mining on Mobile Phone Features
- Airbnb/ Hotels / Travelocity Recommender from user reviews
- Movie/TV Shows/Books/Anime/Music/Video Game/Social Media Friends recommender (Check UCSD data)
- License Plate Reader w/ Raspberry Pi + Neural Stick
- Concussion detection w/ Raspberry Pi 0
- Youtube 8M
- Yelp Dataset
- Hacker News
- Github Activity Data
- Amazon Customer Reviews
- Deep Fashion
- MVC
- Stack Overflow
- UCSD Recommender Systems Data
- HMDB: a large human motion database
- UCF Sports Action Videos
- Vox Celebrity Data
- Submit a PR by creating branch for fixing grammatical errors or you have new ideas to add.
- For discussion create issues.