Awesome Deep Learning Project Ideas

A curated list of practical deep learning and machine learning project ideas

• 30+ ideas
• Relevant to both the academia and industry
• Ranges from beginner friendly to research projects

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Contents

• Text - With some topics about Natural language processing

• Forecasting - Most of the topics in this section is about Time Series and similar forecasting challenges

• Recommendation Systems

• Vision - With topics about image and video processing

• Covid19 - Multi or Single Domain ideas from the Covid19 theme

• Music and Audio - These topics are about combining ideas from language and audio to understand music

• Conclusion

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Covid19

• Bing Coronavirus

  • Classify Bing Queries as either specific (e.g. about a specific location) or generic. You might have to figure out a more exact definition of specific or generic though
  • Dataset: BingCoronavirusQuerySet

• Covid Clinical Data

  • Rank and sort high risk patients using clinical data. Pick an interpretable approach if you can.
  • Dataset: CovidClinicalData

If you haven’t already, checkout Kaggle’s Covid19 Section as well. It has datasets and ideas both.

Text

• Autonomous Tagging of StackOverflow 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 questions
  • Dataset: StackOverflow question samples by Facebook

• Topic identification

  • Multi-label classification of printed media articles to topics
  • Dataset: Greek Media monitoring multi-label 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 meaning?
  • Dataset: Quora question pairs with similar questions marked
• Fight online abuse
  • Can you confidently and accurately tell whether a particular comment 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 is built in a similar way for Wikipedia.
  • Dataset: NCERT books for K-12/school students in India, NarrativeQA by Google DeepMind and SQuAD by Stanford
• Social Chat/Conversational Bots
  • Can you build a bot which talks to you just like people talk on social networking sites?
  • Reference: Chat-bot architecture
  • Dataset: Reddit Dataset
• 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 some 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 some 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’s 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

Recommendation 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 X-Ray competition
  • Can you identify if a hand is broken from a X-ray radiographs automatically with better than human performance?
  • Stanford’s Bone XRay Deep Learning Competition 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? I think 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
• Chest XRay
  • Can you detect if someone is sick from their chest XRay? Or guess their radiology report?
  • Dataset: MIMIC-CXR at Physionet
• 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 Identification, 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
• Music Genre recognition using neural networks
  • Can you identify the musical genre using their spectrograms or other sound information?
  • Datasets: FMA or GTZAN on Keras
  • Get started with Librosa for feature extraction

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FAQ

• Can I use the ideas here for my thesis? Yes, totally! I’d love to know how it went.

• Do you have any advice before I start my project? Advice for Short Term Machine Learning Projects by Tim R. is a pretty good starting point!

• Would you like to share my solution/code to a problem here? Sure - why not?

  Go to the GitHub issues tab in this repository and let me know there.

• How can I add my ideas here? Just send a pull request and we’ll discuss?

• Hey, something is wrong here! Yikes, I am sorry. Please tell me by raising a GitHub issue.

  I’ll fix it as soon as possible.

Acknowledgements

Problems are motivated by the ones shared at:

• CMU Machine Learning
• Stanford CS229 Machine Learning Projects

Credit

Built with lots of keyboard smashing and copy-pasta love by NirantK. Find me on Twitter!

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