Capstone Projects

Build real-world ML applications across computer vision, NLP, and more

12 projects5 domainsAll skill levels
Computer Vision
Beginner

Plant Disease Detection

Build a CNN to classify plant leaf diseases for agricultural applications

1-2 weeks
4.8
1250
Dataset:

PlantVillage Dataset (54K images)

Metrics:
Accuracy
F1-Score
Confusion Matrix
Skills:
CNNs
Transfer Learning
Data Augmentation
+1
NLP
Beginner

Sentiment Analysis API

Create a sentiment analysis system with BERT and deploy as REST API

1 week
4.9
2100
Dataset:

IMDB Reviews (50K reviews)

Metrics:
Accuracy
ROC-AUC
Latency
Skills:
Transformers
BERT
FastAPI
+1
Tabular
Beginner

Customer Churn Prediction

Predict customer churn using ensemble methods with explainability

1 week
4.7
1890
Dataset:

Telco Customer Churn (7K rows)

Metrics:
AUC-ROC
Precision
Recall
Skills:
XGBoost
Feature Engineering
SHAP
+1
Time Series
Intermediate

Stock Price Forecasting

Time series forecasting with LSTM and Transformer models

2 weeks
4.6
980
Dataset:

Yahoo Finance API (5 years data)

Metrics:
RMSE
MAE
Directional Accuracy
Skills:
LSTM
Time Series
Feature Engineering
+1
Computer Vision
Intermediate

Real-time Object Detection

Build a YOLO-based object detector with video stream support

2-3 weeks
4.8
720
Dataset:

COCO Dataset (330K images)

Metrics:
mAP
FPS
IoU
Skills:
YOLO
Object Detection
OpenCV
+1
NLP
Intermediate

Conversational AI Chatbot

Build a context-aware chatbot using RAG and LangChain

2 weeks
4.9
1540
Dataset:

Custom Knowledge Base

Metrics:
Response Quality
Relevance
Latency
Skills:
RAG
LangChain
Vector DBs
+1
Tabular
Intermediate

Credit Card Fraud Detection

Detect fraudulent transactions with imbalanced learning techniques

1-2 weeks
4.7
1320
Dataset:

Kaggle Credit Card Fraud (284K transactions)

Metrics:
Precision
Recall
F1
AUC-PR
Skills:
Imbalanced Learning
Anomaly Detection
XGBoost
+1
NLP
Intermediate

Document Summarization

Fine-tune T5 for abstractive text summarization

2 weeks
4.6
650
Dataset:

CNN/DailyMail (300K articles)

Metrics:
ROUGE-1
ROUGE-2
ROUGE-L
Skills:
T5
Fine-tuning
Hugging Face
+1
Computer Vision
Advanced

Medical Image Segmentation

Segment tumors in MRI scans using U-Net architecture

3 weeks
4.9
380
Dataset:

BraTS Challenge (MRI scans)

Metrics:
Dice Score
IoU
Hausdorff Distance
Skills:
U-Net
Medical Imaging
3D CNNs
+1
Recommendation
Intermediate

Movie Recommendation System

Build a hybrid recommender with collaborative and content-based filtering

2 weeks
4.7
890
Dataset:

MovieLens 25M (25M ratings)

Metrics:
NDCG
MAP
Hit Rate
Skills:
Matrix Factorization
Neural CF
Embeddings
+1
Reinforcement Learning
Advanced

Game-Playing AI Agent

Train a DQN agent to play Atari games from pixels

3-4 weeks
4.8
420
Dataset:

Atari Environment (Gym)

Metrics:
Average Reward
Episodes to Solve
Skills:
DQN
Policy Gradients
PyTorch
+1
Computer Vision
Advanced

Lane Detection System

Build a lane detection system for autonomous vehicles

3 weeks
4.9
310
Dataset:

TuSimple Lane Detection (6K images)

Metrics:
Accuracy
FP Rate
FN Rate
Skills:
Semantic Segmentation
Edge Detection
OpenCV
+1