Recognizing hand-written digits¶
An example showing how the scikit-learn can be used to recognize images of hand-written digits.
This example is commented in the tutorial section of the user manual.
Script output:
Classification report for classifier SVC(C=1.0, cache_size=200, coef0=0.0, degree=3, gamma=0.001, kernel=rbf,
probability=False, scale_C=False, shrinking=True, tol=0.001):
precision recall f1-score support
0 1.00 0.99 0.99 88
1 0.99 0.97 0.98 91
2 0.99 0.99 0.99 86
3 0.98 0.87 0.92 91
4 0.99 0.96 0.97 92
5 0.95 0.97 0.96 91
6 0.99 0.99 0.99 91
7 0.96 0.99 0.97 89
8 0.94 1.00 0.97 88
9 0.93 0.98 0.95 92
avg / total 0.97 0.97 0.97 899
Confusion matrix:
[[87 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 88 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1]
[ 0 0 85 1 0 0 0 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 79 0 3 0 4 5 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 88 0 0 0 0 4]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 88 1 0 0 2]
[ 0 1 0 0 0 0 90 0 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 88 0 0]
[ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 0]
[ 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 90]]
Python source code: plot_digits_classification.py
print __doc__
# Author: Gael Varoquaux <gael dot varoquaux at normalesup dot org>
# License: Simplified BSD
# Standard scientific Python imports
import pylab as pl
# Import datasets, classifiers and performance metrics
from sklearn import datasets, svm, metrics
# The digits dataset
digits = datasets.load_digits()
# The data that we are interested in is made of 8x8 images of digits,
# let's have a look at the first 3 images, stored in the `images`
# attribute of the dataset. If we were working from image files, we
# could load them using pylab.imread. For these images know which
# digit they represent: it is given in the 'target' of the dataset.
for index, (image, label) in enumerate(zip(digits.images, digits.target)[:4]):
pl.subplot(2, 4, index + 1)
pl.axis('off')
pl.imshow(image, cmap=pl.cm.gray_r, interpolation='nearest')
pl.title('Training: %i' % label)
# To apply an classifier on this data, we need to flatten the image, to
# turn the data in a (samples, feature) matrix:
n_samples = len(digits.images)
data = digits.images.reshape((n_samples, -1))
# Create a classifier: a support vector classifier
classifier = svm.SVC(gamma=0.001)
# We learn the digits on the first half of the digits
classifier.fit(data[:n_samples / 2], digits.target[:n_samples / 2])
# Now predict the value of the digit on the second half:
expected = digits.target[n_samples / 2:]
predicted = classifier.predict(data[n_samples / 2:])
print "Classification report for classifier %s:\n%s\n" % (
classifier, metrics.classification_report(expected, predicted))
print "Confusion matrix:\n%s" % metrics.confusion_matrix(expected, predicted)
for index, (image, prediction) in enumerate(
zip(digits.images[n_samples / 2:], predicted)[:4]):
pl.subplot(2, 4, index + 5)
pl.axis('off')
pl.imshow(image, cmap=pl.cm.gray_r, interpolation='nearest')
pl.title('Prediction: %i' % prediction)
pl.show()