import tensor with mat format to tensorflow
Question: I am new in tensorflow and Python. I have an image data set in Matlab in a
tensor with size : 96*96*5000 (image size , number of images) and I need to
import it to Tensorflow. I looked at the Tensorflow tutorial, which says I
should use TFRecords or CSV formats but I think this means that I save each
image separately in csv format. Is there any way to directly import my tensor
to tensorflow?


Answer: As Olivier said in [his
comment](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37620330/import-tensor-with-mat-
format-to-tensorflow#comment62727615_37620330), the easiest solution is to
convert the data into a Numpy array, and use TensorFlow's [feeding
mechanism](https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.8/how_tos/reading_data/index.html#feeding)
to pass the data into your TensorFlow model.

The
[`scipy.io.loadmat()`](http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/tutorial/io.html)
function in SciPy can be used to load a Matlab `.mat` file into Python, as a
dictionary mapping Matlab matrix names (as strings) to Numpy arrays.

