Fashion MNIST is a drop-in replacement for MNIST, but instead of handwritten digits, it is about classifying clothes. Try out the techniques we have used in this chapter on Fashion MNIST. How do they work together? What gives good results? You can find the dataset on Kaggle at https://www.kaggle.com/zalando-research/fashionmnist.

Take on the whale recognition challenge and read the top kernels and discussion posts. The link can be found here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/whale-categorization-playground. The task of recognizing whales by their fluke is similar to recognizing humans by their face. There are good kernels showing off bounding boxes as well as Siamese networks. We have not covered all the technical tools needed to solve the task yet, so do not worry about the code in detail but instead focus on the concepts shown.