README.md

---
annotations_creators: []
language: en
license: unknown
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- image-classification
task_ids: []
pretty_name: usps
tags:
- fiftyone
- image
- image-classification
exists_ok: true
dataset_summary: '



  ![image/png](dataset_preview.jpg)



  This is a [FiftyOne](https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone) dataset with 9298 samples.


  ## Installation


  If you haven''t already, install FiftyOne:


  ```bash

  pip install -U fiftyone

  ```


  ## Usage


  ```python

  import fiftyone as fo

  import fiftyone.utils.huggingface as fouh


  # Load the dataset

  # Note: other available arguments include ''max_samples'', etc

  dataset = fouh.load_from_hub("rohis/USPS")


  # Launch the App

  session = fo.launch_app(dataset)

  ```

  '
---

# Dataset Card for usps

<!-- Provide a quick summary of the dataset. -->




![image/png](dataset_preview.jpg)


This is a [FiftyOne](https://github.com/voxel51/fiftyone) dataset with 9298 samples.

## Installation

If you haven't already, install FiftyOne:

```bash
pip install -U fiftyone
```

## Usage

```python
import fiftyone as fo
import fiftyone.utils.huggingface as fouh

# Load the dataset
# Note: other available arguments include 'max_samples', etc
dataset = fouh.load_from_hub("rohis/USPS")

# Launch the App
session = fo.launch_app(dataset)
```


## Dataset Details

### Dataset Description

<!-- Provide a longer summary of what this dataset is. -->

- **Curated by:** Introduced by Jonathan J. Hull in [A Database for Handwritten Text Recognition Research](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/291440) and available at [https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/usps](https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/usps).
- **Language(s) (NLP):** en
- **License:** unknown

### Dataset Sources [optional]

<!-- Provide the basic links for the dataset. -->

- **Repository:** https://paperswithcode.com/dataset/usps
- **Paper:** [A Database for Handwritten Text Recognition Research](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/291440)

## Dataset Structure

<!-- This section provides a description of the dataset fields, and additional information about the dataset structure such as criteria used to create the splits, relationships between data points, etc. -->

```
Name:        usps
Media type:  image
Num samples: 9298
Persistent:  False
Tags:        []
Sample fields:
    id:           fiftyone.core.fields.ObjectIdField
    filepath:     fiftyone.core.fields.StringField
    tags:         fiftyone.core.fields.ListField(fiftyone.core.fields.StringField)
    metadata:     fiftyone.core.fields.EmbeddedDocumentField(fiftyone.core.metadata.ImageMetadata)
    ground_truth: fiftyone.core.fields.EmbeddedDocumentField(fiftyone.core.labels.Classification)
```

The dataset has 2 splits: "train" and "test". Samples are tagged with their split.

## Dataset Creation

Introduced by Jonathan J. Hull in [A Database for Handwritten Text Recognition Research](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/291440)

## Citation

<!-- If there is a paper or blog post introducing the dataset, the APA and Bibtex information for that should go in this section. -->

**BibTeX:**
```
@ARTICLE{291440,
  author={Hull, J.J.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, 
  title={A database for handwritten text recognition research}, 
  year={1994},
  volume={16},
  number={5},
  pages={550-554},
  keywords={Text recognition;Image databases;Testing;Cities and towns;Handwriting recognition;Gray-scale;Performance analysis;Writing;Digital images;Postal services},
  doi={10.1109/34.291440}}
```

## More Information

Dataset conversion and data card contributed by [Rohith Raj Srinivasan](https://huggingface.co/rohis).

## Dataset Card Authors

[Rohith Raj Srinivasan](https://huggingface.co/rohis)