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-license: mit
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+---
+license: mit
+language:
+- en
+metrics:
+- accuracy
+tags:
+- CNN
+- NeuralNetwork
+---
+# CIFAR-10 CNN Image Classifier
+
+A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) built **from scratch** using **TensorFlow/Keras** to classify images from the CIFAR-10 dataset into 10 object categories.
+
+This project focuses on **understanding CNN design, training stability, regularization, and evaluation**, without using pretrained models or transfer learning.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Project Overview
+
+This project demonstrates:
+
+- CNN architecture design from first principles  
+- Training and evaluation on the CIFAR-10 dataset  
+- Overfitting detection and mitigation  
+- Confusion matrix–based error analysis  
+- Clean, modular ML project structure  
+
+The goal is to gain **hands-on understanding of deep learning fundamentals**, rather than maximizing benchmark scores.
+
+---
+
+## 🧠 Dataset
+
+**CIFAR-10**
+
+- 60,000 color images (32×32)
+- 10 classes:
+  - airplane, automobile, bird, cat, deer  
+  - dog, frog, horse, ship, truck
+- 50,000 training images
+- 10,000 test images
+
+---
+
+## 🏗️ Model Architecture
+
+- **3 Convolutional blocks**
+  - Conv2D → Batch Normalization → ReLU → MaxPooling
+- **Classifier**
+  - Dense(256) → Dropout(0.5)
+  - Dense(128) → Dropout(0.3)
+  - Dense(10 logits)
+- Loss handled using `SparseCategoricalCrossentropy(from_logits=True)`
+
+**Total parameters:** ~1.3M
+
+---
+
+## ⚙️ Training Strategy
+
+- Input normalization
+- Data augmentation (horizontal flip, rotation, zoom)
+- Batch Normalization for stable training
+- Dropout for regularization
+- Early stopping to prevent overfitting
+
+Training was stopped automatically once validation performance stopped improving.
+
+---
+
+## 📊 Evaluation & Results
+
+- **Best validation accuracy:** ~67%
+- Small train–validation gap → good generalization
+- Performance analyzed using a **confusion matrix**
+
+Key observations:
+- Strong performance on classes like automobile, frog, ship, and truck
+- Expected confusion between visually similar classes (cat ↔ dog, deer ↔ horse)
+- Confusion matrix used as a diagnostic tool rather than accuracy alone
+
+---
+
+## 🛠️ Installation
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/revanthreddy0906/cifar10-cnn-image-classifier.git
+cd cifar10-cnn-image-classifier
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+```
+---
+
+**📌 Key Learnings**
+--------------------
+
+-   CNNs outperform dense networks for image data
+
+-   Correct data pipelines are critical for stable training
+
+-   Overfitting must be diagnosed using validation metrics
+
+-   Confusion matrices provide deeper insight than accuracy alone
+
+-   Regularization and early stopping are essential for generalization
+
+* * * * *
+
+**📈 Future Improvements**
+--------------------------
+
+-   Stronger data augmentation (MixUp / CutOut)
+
+-   Learning rate scheduling
+
+-   Residual connections (ResNet-style blocks)
+
+-   Transfer learning with pretrained backbones
+
+-   Per-class precision and recall analysis