CS84 Homework due 3/21

Summary:
We will be starting two in-class projects: "ShapePoints" and "Captcha Breaking". Your homework will be to extend / continue these projects.

Part 1. Continue the in-class project "Shape Points". Modify the shapePoints project to draw two circles and several squares. Output an image representing the distance from the closest circle for each pixel (in manhattan distance, not euclidian). Build a neural network to predict. Write a processing program that loads the test data and predictions data, and draws 4 pictures side by side. Picture 1 should be the input. Picture 2 is the correct output. Picture 3 is the predicted output. Picture 4 is the difference between pictures 2 and 3.

Part 2. Continue the in-class project "Captcha Breaking" contest on kaggle:
https://www.kaggle.com/c/street-view-getting-started-with-julia . Last semester I budgeted a single week for this assignment, but this semester I'm planning on two weeks, so it is okay if you don't get to upload anything to kaggle before next week. We should have already, in class, built code to pre-process the image into training and test vectors. We should also have covered how to load them into Keras. Try to do as much as you can to build a model that takes those train/test data sets and compiles + fits. Report via email how well you got the model to fit, or any roadblocks you hit along the way.