The objective of this project is to carry out supervised image classification on a collection of colored images. It employs a convolutional neural network design and applies data augmentation and transformations to recognize the category of images from a predefined set of 10 classes.

The dataset used is CIFAR-10, which is a widely used benchmark dataset in the field of computer vision and machine learning. It serves as a standard dataset for training and evaluating machine learning algorithms, particularly for image classification tasks.

The dataset has the following features:

• Consists of 60,000 32x32 color images in 10 classes, with 6,000 images per class.
• Comprises 50,000 training images and 10,000 test images.
• Classes: airplane, automobile, bird, cat, deer, dog, frog, horse, ship, and truck.

The project is implemented in several steps simulating the essential data processing and analysis phases.

• Each step is represented in a corresponding section inside image-classification-tensorflow.ipynb.

Includes importing necessary libraries and modules.

Includes loading the dataset from keras library and checking its details.

Includes data transformation and augmentation using ImageDataGenerator, as follows:

1. Scaling the pixel values of the images to be in the range [0, 1].
2. Randomly applying shear transformations to the images.
3. Randomly applying zoom transformations to the images.
4. Randomly flipping images horizontally.

The CNN model consists of the following Sequential layers:

1. Input layer.
2. Two convolutional layers with ReLU activation function and an increasing number of filters.
3. Two max pooling layers following the convolutional layers.
4. Flattening layer.
5. Two dense/fully connected layers with ReLU activation function.
6. Output layer with Softmax activation function.

Model is compiled and trained using the following configurations:

• Optimizer: Adam.
• Loss function: Categorical Crossentropy.
• Batch size: 32
• Epochs: 25

Model accuracy is plotted and analyzed along the epochs. The final results are as follows: