Image Classification Using ResNets - Intel Image Classification Dataset

Author: John Chen

Welcome! This is my course project for Deep Learning with PyTorch: Zero to GANs, a course organized by freeCodeCamp and Jovian. I want to give a big shout out to Aakash, the course instructor, and the Jovian team for teaching the material and managing the course.

For this project, we will be using the Intel Image Classification dataset from Kaggle which can be found here. Original credit goes to Intel which hosted this dataset on https://datahack.analyticsvidhya.com/. The dataset contains ~ 25,000 size 150 x 150 images of six different natural scenes: buildings, forest, glacier, mountain, sea, and street. Our goal for this project is to predict the size categories with reasonable accuracy ( < 85% ).

We will also utilize a few different machine learning techniques to improve our model's performance. Some of these techniques include: normalization, augmentation, dropout, learning rate scheduling, gradient clipping, and weight decay.

Setting up the Code

Install the Jovian Python library so that I will be able to commit this notebook and its data/parameters to the Jovian website.

Install the Python library opendatasets to import and download the Kaggle dataset using its url.