Hello Rajiv,

I like the idea, but perhaps we should focus on either 1 or 2, implementing both
might be difficult to get done in time. Let me know what you think.

Thanks,
Marcus

> On 14. Mar 2019, at 09:39, Rajiv Vaidyanathan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Marcus,
> 
> I did some more research about the Graph Neural Networks. Since I'm new to 
> GNNs, I am not sure about how long it will take to implement all the 
> necessary layers. Hence, I thought I'll work on something which I'm already 
> familiar about, which is convolutional neural networks. I'm extremely 
> interested in working on methods used for object detection. Object detection 
> algorithms such as R-CNN, YOLO, etc. have become very popular due to their 
> speed and accuracy. I feel that it would be a great addition to the MLPack 
> library.
> 
> I want to implement the following networks along with tests and 
> documentation: 
> 1. R-CNN and it's variants such as fast RCNN, Faster RCNN and Mask-R-CNN
> 2. YOLO
> 
> For their implementation, the following have to be implemented:
> 1. ROI pooling
> 2. Region Proposal Network
> 3. Techniques: non-max suppression, intersection over union and anchor boxes
> 
> Please let me know what you think about this. If you are fine with this idea, 
> I'll do more research and make a brief proposal as to what needs be precisely 
> done with respect to the MLPack code along with a rough timeline.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Rajiv
> ᐧ
> 
> On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 03:23, Marcus Edel <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello Rajiv,
> 
> thanks again for the contributions. Implementing Graph Neural Networks is 
> quite
> a challenge especially timewise but if you are up for that; we should make 
> sure
> the timeline is reasonable including the milestones. Everything needs to be
> tests and stable at the end of the summer which often takes a lot of time, but
> as I said if you are up for the challenge this could be an interesting project
> for sure.
> 
> Let us know what you think.
> 
> Thanks,
> Marcus
> 
>> On 28. Feb 2019, at 19:14, Rajiv Vaidyanathan <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Marcus, Mikhail and Shikhar,
>> 
>> I am N Rajiv Vaidyanathan and I'm interested in the topic "Essential Deep 
>> Learning Modules" in GSoC 19.
>> 
>> Over the past month, I'm trying to get an understanding of the MLPack 
>> codebase by making contributions. As of now, I have implemented SPSA 
>> optimiser, Dice Loss function and currently working on Dense blocks.
>> 
>> I recently read a paper on Graph Neural Networks and found it to be 
>> fascinating as it works very well on non-Euclidian spaces such as social 
>> networks and 3D images. I am interested in working on implementing this 
>> network along with tests and documentation. I'm also interested in improving 
>> the overall documentation of ann.
>> 
>> Please let me know what you think :)
>> 
>> Thanks and regards,
>> Rajiv
>> ᐧ
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