---
tags:
- computer-vision
- tensorflow
- keras
- mnist
- classification
license: mit
---

# MNIST Digit Recognition (ANN - TensorFlow/Keras)

This model is a simple Artificial Neural Network (ANN) trained on the MNIST dataset to classify handwritten digits (0–9).

## Architecture
- Input: 28x28 grayscale image
- Flatten layer
- Dense(128, ReLU)
- Dense(10, Softmax)

## Training
- Dataset: MNIST
- Optimizer: Adam
- Loss: Sparse Categorical Crossentropy
- Epochs: 5

## Performance
Achieves ~97–98% test accuracy.

## Usage

```python
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

model = tf.keras.models.load_model("mnist_ann_model.keras")

# Example input (28x28 image normalized)
sample = np.random.rand(1, 28, 28)

pred = model.predict(sample)
print(np.argmax(pred))

Notes

This is a beginner-friendly ANN model (not CNN).