Awesome Deep Learning Project Ideas

Curated List of Practical Deep Learning, Machine learning project Ideas

• 25+ ideas
• Relevant to academia and industry both
• Range from beginner friendly to research projects

Problems are motivated by the ones shared at:

• CMU Machine Learning
• Stanford CS229 Machine Learning Projects

Please do send a PR or open an issue with your suggestions and requests!

Contents

• Text - including natural language under this section
• Forecasting - mostly Time Series and similar forecasting challenges
• Recommender Systems
• Vision - includes image and video processing
• Music and Audio - combine ideas from language, and audio to understand music

Text

Autonomous Tagging of Stack Overflow Questions

• Make a multi-label classification system that automatically assigns tags for questions posted on a forum such as Stackoverflow or Quora
• Dataset: StackLite or 10% sample

Keyword/Concept Identification

• Identify keywords from millions of text questions
• Dataset: StackOverflow Questions Sample by Facebook

Topics Identification

• Multi-label classification of printed media articles to topics
• Dataset: Greek Media Monitoring Multilabel Classification

Natural Language Understanding

Automated Essay Grading

• The purpose of this project is to implement and train machine learning algorithms to automatically assess and grade essay responses.
• Dataset: Essays with human graded scores

Sentence to Sentence Semantic Similarity

• Can you identify question pairs that have the same intent? Or sentences that have the same meaning?
• Dataset: Quora Question Pairs with similar questions marked

Fight online abuse

• Can you confidently and accurately tell via a particular is abusive?
• Dataset: Toxic Comments on Kaggle

Open Domain Question Answering

• Can you build a bot which answers questions according to the student's age or her curriculum?
• Facebook's FAIR built similar for Wikipedia
• Dataset: NCERT books for K-12/school students in India, NarrativeQA by Google DeepMind and SQuAD by Stanford

Automatic Text Summarization

• Can you create a summary with the major points of the original document?
• Abstractive (write your own summary) and Extractive (select pieces of text from original) are two popular approaches
• Dataset: CNN and DailyMail News Pieces by Google Deepmind

Copy-cat Bot

• Generate plausible new text which looks like some other text
• Obama Speeches? For instance, you can create a bot which writes new speeches in Obama's style
• Trump Bot? Or a Twitter bot which mimics @realDonaldTrump
• Narendra Modi bot saying doston? Start by scrapping off his Hindi speeches from his personal website
  • Example Dataset: English Transcript of Modi speeches

Check mlm/blog for hints

Sentiment Analysis

• Do Twitter Sentiment Analysis on tweets sorted by geography and timestamp
• Dataset: Tweets sentiment tagged by humans

De-anonymization

• Can you classify the text of an e-mail message to decide who sent it?
• Dataset: 150,000 Enron emails

Forecasting

Univariate Time Series Forecasting

• How much will it rain this year?
• Dataset: 45 years of rainfall data

Multi-variate Time Series Forecasting

• How polluted will your town air be? Pollution Level Forecasting
• Dataset: Air Quality dataset

Demand/load forecasting

• Find a short term forecast on electricity consumption of a single home
• Dataset: Electricity Consumption of a household

Predict Blood Donation

• We're interested in predicting if a blood donor will donate within a given time window
• More on the problem statement at Driven Data
• Dataset: UCI ML Datasets Repo

Recommender Systems

Movie Recommender

• Can you predict the rating a user will give on a movie?
• Do this using the movies that user has rated in the past, as well as the ratings similar users have given similar movies.
• Dataset: Netflix Prize and MovieLens Datasets

Search + Recommendation System

• Predict which Xbox game a visitor will be most interested in based on their search query
• Dataset: BestBuy

Can you predict Influencers in the Social Network?

• How can you predict social influencers?
• Dataset: PeerIndex

Vision

Image Classification

• Object recognition or image classification task is how Deep Learning shot up to it's present-day resurgence
• Datasets:
  • CIFAR-10
  • ImageNet
  • MS COCO is the modern replacement to the ImageNet challenge
  • MNIST Handwritten Digit Classification Challenge is the classic entry point
  • Character recognition (digits) is the good old Optical Character Recognition problem
  • Bird Species Identification from an Image using the Caltech-UCSD Birds dataset dataset
  • Diagnosing and Segmenting Brain Tumors and Phenotypes using MRI Scans
    • Dataset: MICCAI Machine Learning Challenge aka MLC 2014
  • Identify endangered right whales in aerial photographs
    • Dataset: MOAA Right Whale
  • Can computer vision spot distracted drivers?
    • Dataset: State Farm Distracted Driver Detection on Kaggle

Bone XRay Competition

• Can you identify if the hand is broken from a X-ray radiographs automatically with better than human performance?
• Stanford's Bone XRay Deep Learning Compeition with MURA Dataset

Image Captioning

• Can you caption/explain the photo a way human would?
• Dataset: MS COCO

Image Segmentation/Object Detection

• Can you extract an object of interest from an image?
• Dataset: MS COCO, Carvana Image Masking Challenge on Kaggle

Large-Scale Video Understanding

• Can you produce the best video tag predictions?
• Dataset: Youtube 8M

Video Summarization

• Can you select the semantically relevant/important parts from the video?
• Example: Fast-Forward Video Based on Semantic Extraction
• Dataset: Unaware of any standard dataset or agreed upon metrics, Youtube 8M might be good starting point

Style Transfer

• Can you recompose images in the style of other images?
• Dataset: fzliu on Github shared target and source images with results

Face Recognition

• Can you identify whose photo is this? Similar to Facebook's photo tagging or Apple's FaceId
• Dataset: face-rec.org, or facedetection.com

Clinical Diagnostics: Image Idenitification, classification & segmentation

• Can you help build an open source software for lung cancer detection to help radiologists?
• Link: Concept to Clinic challenge on DrivenData

Satellite Imagery Processing for Socioeconomic Analysis

• Can you estimate the standard of living or energy consumption of a place from night time satellite imagery?
• Reference for Project details: Stanford Poverty Estimation Project

Satellite Imagery Processing for Automated Tagging

• Can you automatically tag satellite images with human features such as buildings, roads, waterways and so on?
• Help free the manual effort in tagging satellite imagery: Kaggle Dataset by DSTL, UK

Music

Music/Audio Recommendation Systems

• Can you tell if two songs are similar using their sound or lyrics?
• Dataset: Million Songs Dataset and it's 1% sample. Example: Anusha et al

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