MNIST database
Base de datos MNIST
- Date
- 1998 · confidence high
- Place
- Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Yann LeCun y Corinna Cortes
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Yann LeCun and Corinna Cortes compiled the MNIST database, 70,000 normalized handwritten digits, as a standard benchmark for image recognition with neural networks.
What it led to
- Standard benchmarks in machine learning
- Popularization of convolutional neural networks
- Deep learning courses and demos
- Later reference datasets (CIFAR, ImageNet)