# Implementing a simple RNN

In this post we will be implementing two simple Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) one for classification and the other for regression tasks.

### Classification using RNN

It takes in a binary number and returns the XOR of the number. For example if the input is 10110 then it should output 11011, as Continue reading

# Sudoku Solver – 2

In the last post we discussed how to extract the sudoku region from the captured frame of a live stream and then we applied perspective transform to the extracted region and then we slide a window through each cell and recognized the digits in the cells. Now in this post we discuss how to solve the sudoku puzzle using Backtracking algorithm. There are several approaches to solve the sudoku puzzle. For example, you can find some of them in this paper.

Though there are several approaches to solve it, let’s stick to the traditional backtracking algorithm to solve the puzzle. For our understanding, just have a look at how the sudoku is presented below.

A sample sudoku puzzle

# Sudoku Solver – 1

I was very much excited to solve the Sudoku puzzles that appeared in daily newspapers during childhood. In fact it’s a lot of fun solving them and even we (my friends) challenge ourselves to solve them first. By then we don’t know programming and other stuff, so we were not aware of finding the solution with ease. But when I was learning Data Structures and Algorithms long back I got encountered with the famous Backtracking algorithm and yes, solving a sudoku puzzle is one among the challenges that can be solved easily using that algorithm. Continue reading

# Recognize Handwritten digits – 2

This post is going to be a long one and you may ask why don’t I split this up? And yes there is a reason for that, it would be better to complete all the details in this post at once rather than taking a break as you may get lost overtime. So getting to the point, in the last post we were able to segment the individual digits from the image. In this post we will develop a model to recognize those individual digits. Continue reading