Function to load training data
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Hudson Ko
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Recently, I have been trying to build a machine learning model for image classification. Due to a lack of enough real data, I first create a python script to generate some artificial images and save them explicitly with the file names as labels.
Samples of artificial data of the Chinese character (in English, it presents the number one)
However, later on, when I try to load these data as training inputs for my machine learning model, the message of memory error pops up. You can see that… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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