own handwriting examples

[Gerrit02]

@makeyourownneuralnetwork
I'm wondering, can you send the numbers you create your own via attach or via mail?
I'd like to experiment also with those.
It's a pritty that it is so hard to create 28x28 pixels images because of that low pixel rate.
A picture taken with a modern smartphone or camera is soon 1 Mbyte and more and if you want to convert to 28x28 the noise becomes really a lot.
Even if you do it eg with paint, you can define the area as 28x28 but that is so small area you can hardly drawn a number (see my last images) :-( a sent few post agoo.

[makeyourownneuralnetwork]

here is an example

i use a photo / image editing program to draw a number on a sqaure canvas of size eg 300 x 300

then i resize the image to 28x28 and save as PNG

There are more examples in the github repo here:
https://github.com/makeyourownneuralnetwork/makeyourownneuralnetwork/tree/master/my_own_images

[Gerrit02]

What I do not understand is if you draw it in 300x300 and afterwards you save it to 28x28 you don't have noise on the drawing?
Which photo/image editing program do you use?

[makeyourownneuralnetwork]

I have used pinta, gimp and affinity photo

noise should be ok as long as there isn't too much - the point of neural networks is that they are tolerant to some noise

[Gerrit02]

When I draw a number in let's say 300x300 and then convert to 28x28 I have a lot of noise and my number is really misformed. I did it with paint.

[makeyourownalgorithmicart]

please attach the 300x300 and the 28x28 image