This competition asks you to count paperclips on sheets of paper.  Image counting applications are common for many sorts of data analysis.  Images such as you see on Google Maps are frequent targets.  Counting cars, people, trees, houses, water coverage, can all provide valuable information about the demographics of these regions.

For this competition you are given images of paper covered by paperclips.  Your task is to count the paperclips and return as accurate of a count as possible.  The images are 256x256.

Some images are very easy:

![Test](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/clips-49994.png)

Some images are a little more difficult:

![Test](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/clips-49940.png)

Some images will be really challenging:

![Test](https://data.heatonresearch.com/kaggle/images/clips-49973.png)