""" ================================ 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 :ref:`tutorial section of the user manual `. """ print(__doc__) # Author: Gael Varoquaux # License: BSD 3 clause # Standard scientific Python imports import matplotlib.pyplot as plt # 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. Note that each image must have the same size. For these # images, we know which digit they represent: it is given in the 'target' of # the dataset. images_and_labels = list(zip(digits.images, digits.target)) for index, (image, label) in enumerate(images_and_labels[:4]): plt.subplot(2, 4, index + 1) plt.axis('off') plt.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray_r, interpolation='nearest') plt.title('Training: %i' % label) # To apply a 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)) images_and_predictions = list(zip(digits.images[n_samples / 2:], predicted)) for index, (image, prediction) in enumerate(images_and_predictions[:4]): plt.subplot(2, 4, index + 5) plt.axis('off') plt.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.gray_r, interpolation='nearest') plt.title('Prediction: %i' % prediction) plt.show()