Hello Francesco,
my name is Brayan Stiven Zapata Impatá and I am writing you since I am interested in taking part of the GSoC 17 project you mentor on Octave called:
Neural Networks package: Convolutional Neural Networks. Here, I leave you my Octave application form so you can learn more from me and my proposal:
http://wiki.octave.org/User:Yayan
I have checked the NNET project and I have seen you are working on it. I guess that your main idea is building the CNN as a module inside this forge package, am I wrong? I think that would be a great idea!
Please, let me ask you for some help on the proposal so any help or suggestion would be really appreciated. Thanks for you attention,
Brayan.