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HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

In spite of the advances in pattern recognition technology, Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition (HBCR) (such as alpha-numeric and special characters) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many perplexing characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Paheding Sidike , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

In this work we propose a hybrid NN/HMM model for online Arabic handwriting recognition. The proposed system is based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Multi Layer Perceptron Neural Networks (MLPNNs). The input signal is segmented to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Najiba Tagougui , Houcine Boubaker , Monji Kherallah , Adel M. ALIMI

The technological advancement and sophistication in cameras and gadgets prompt researchers to have focus on image analysis and text understanding. The deep learning techniques demonstrated well to assess the potential for classifying text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Saad Bin Ahmed , Saeeda Naz , Muhammad Imran Razzak , Rubiyah Yousaf

Arabic is a Semitic language which is widely spoken with many dialects. Given the success of pre-trained language models, many transformer models trained on Arabic and its dialects have surfaced. While these models have been compared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ahmed Abdelali , Nadir Durrani , Fahim Dalvi , Hassan Sajjad

Handwritten Arabic script recognition is a challenging task due to the script's dynamic letter forms and contextual variations. This paper proposes a hybrid approach combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chaouki Boufenar , Mehdi Ayoub Rabiai , Boualem Nadjib Zahaf , Khelil Rafik Ouaras

Developmental psychology and neuroimaging research identified a close link between numbers and fingers, which can boost the initial number knowledge in children. Recent evidence shows that a simulation of the children's embodied strategies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Alessandro Di Nuovo

Despite the importance of handwritten numeral classification, a robust and effective method for a widely used language like Arabic is still due. This study focuses to overcome two major limitations of existing works: data diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 S. M. A. Sharif , Ghulam Mujtaba , S. M. Nadim Uddin

The study explores the integration of transfer learning (TL) with mobile-enabled convolutional neural networks (MbNets) to enhance Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition (AHCR). Addressing challenges like extensive computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mohsine El Khayati , Ayyad Maafiri , Yassine Himeur , Hamzah Ali Alkhazaleh , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

In daily communications, Arabs use local dialects which are hard to identify automatically using conventional classification methods. The dialect identification challenging task becomes more complicated when dealing with an under-resourced…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Soumia Bougrine , Hadda Cherroun , Djelloul Ziadi

Character identification plays a vital role in the contemporary world of Image processing. It can solve many composite problems and makes humans work easier. An instance is Handwritten Character detection. Handwritten recognition is not a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-11-27 V. Karthikeyan

Shape analyses of tephra grains result in understanding eruption mechanism of volcanoes. However, we have to define and select parameter set such as convexity for the precise discrimination of tephra grains. Selection of the best parameter…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Daigo Shoji , Rina Noguchi

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Rios-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou

In this paper we address the problem of offline Arabic handwriting word recognition. Off-line recognition of handwritten words is a difficult task due to the high variability and uncertainty of human writing. The majority of the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Nabil Ghanmy , Khlifia jayech , Ikram Miled

Recent research in natural language processing (NLP) has achieved impressive performance in tasks such as machine translation (MT), news classification, and question-answering in high-resource languages. However, the performance of MT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Atnafu Lambebo Tonja , Olga Kolesnikova , Alexander Gelbukh , Jugal Kalita

Large language models (LLMs) have received a lot of attention in natural language processing (NLP) research because of their exceptional performance in understanding and generating human languages. However, low-resource languages are left…

This paper presents a comparative study for window-based descriptors on the application of Arabic handwritten alphabet recognition. We show a detailed experimental evaluation of different descriptors with several classifiers. The objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Marwan Torki , Mohamed E. Hussein , Ahmed Elsallamy , Mahmoud Fayyaz , Shehab Yaser

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

Handwriting is one of the most important means of daily communication. Although the problem of handwriting recognition has been considered for more than 60 years there are still many open issues, especially in the task of unconstrained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Firoj Parwej