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MNIST Database Interface for Bob
================================

This package is part of the signal-processing and machine learning toolbox
Bob_.
The MNIST database is a database of handwritten digits, which consists of a training set of 60,000 examples, and a test set of 10,000 examples. It was made available by Yann Le Cun and Corinna Cortes. The data was originally extracted from a larger set made available by NIST, before being size-normalized and centered in a fixed-size image (28x28 pixels).


Installation
------------

Complete Bob's `installation`_ instructions. Then, to install this pacakge,
run::

  $ conda install bob.db.mnist


Contact
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For questions or reporting issues to this software package, contact our
development `mailing list`_.


.. Place your references here:
.. _bob: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob
.. _installation: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/install
.. _mailing list: https://www.idiap.ch/software/bob/discuss
