Re: GSOC 2020 Idea Discussion

[Carlo De Falco]

> Il giorno 23 feb 2020, alle ore 10:49, Atharva Dubey <address@hidden> ha 
> scritto:
> 
> Hello All,
> I am Atharva Dubey, currently in my 3rd year of engineering from BITS PILANI 
> PILANI
> I have been an avid user of octave for the past 2 years mainly for image 
> processing, pattern recognition, and signal processing. I ventured into the 
> field of machine and deep learning and quickly grasped it with python and 
> sometimes with c++ with all my robotics projects. I recently had to use 
> Matlab for deep learning research and it really hurt octave not having any 
> DL/ML any offial package. 
> I propose to develop a  Deep Learning package using a c++ backend for octave 
> with cuda support for accelerated computing. The API operating on the user 
> part will be user quite easy to use, using array like declarations build 
> layers of the model just like matlab. 
> 
> I wanted feedback and wanted to discuss about this project for GSoC 2020
>  Thanks and Regards

Hi,
There has been a previous project trying to build an Octave interface to 
TensorFlow via Pytave [1].
As Pytave has since evolved to become Pythonic [2], one approach worth 
considering would be to pick-up
where that project had left and complete it using Pythonic.
c.

[1] https://gsocnnet.blogspot.com/
[2] https://gitlab.com/mtmiller/octave-pythonic