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Handwritten character recognition (HCR) remains a challenging pattern recognition problem despite decades of research, and lacks research on script independent recognition techniques. {\color{black}This is mainly because of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve translational invariance by using pooling operations. However, the operations do not preserve the spatial relationships in the learned representations. Hence, CNNs cannot extrapolate to various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Urdu is a cursive script language and has similarities with Arabic and many other South Asian languages. Urdu is difficult to classify due to its complex geometrical and morphological structure. Character classification can be processed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sumaiya Fazal , Sheeraz Ahmed

Artificial sound event detection (SED) has the aim to mimic the human ability to perceive and understand what is happening in the surroundings. Nowadays, Deep Learning offers valuable techniques for this goal such as Convolutional Neural…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Fabio Vesperini , Leonardo Gabrielli , Emanuele Principi , Stefano Squartini

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

Convolutional Neural Networks need the construction of informative features, which are determined by channel-wise and spatial-wise information at the network's layers. In this research, we focus on bringing in a novel solution that uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jerrin Bright , Suryaprakash Rajkumar , Arockia Selvakumar Arockia Doss

In recent times, with the increase of Artificial Neural Network (ANN), deep learning has brought a dramatic twist in the field of machine learning by making it more artificially intelligent. Deep learning is remarkably used in vast ranges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Fathma Siddique , Shadman Sakib , Md. Abu Bakr Siddique

The application of handwritten text recognition to historical works is highly dependant on accurate text line retrieval. A number of systems utilizing a robust baseline detection paradigm have emerged recently but the advancement of layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Benjamin Kiessling , Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra , Matthew Thomas Miller

Increased accuracy in predictive models for handwritten character recognition will open up new frontiers for optical character recognition. Major drawbacks of predictive machine learning models are headed by the elongated training time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Abdul Kawsar Tushar , Akm Ashiquzzaman , Afia Afrin , Md. Rashedul Islam

We introduce a new routing algorithm for capsule networks, in which a child capsule is routed to a parent based only on agreement between the parent's state and the child's vote. The new mechanism 1) designs routing via inverted dot-product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Nitish Srivastava , Hanlin Goh , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

The cursive nature of multilingual characters segmentation and recognition of Arabic, Persian, Urdu languages have attracted researchers from academia and industry. However, despite several decades of research, still multilingual characters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Amjad Rehman , Majid Harouni , Tanzila Saba

A prototype system for the transliteration of diacritics-less Arabic manuscripts at the sub-word or part of Arabic word (PAW) level is developed. The system is able to read sub-words of the input manuscript using a set of skeleton-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-27 Reza Farrahi Moghaddam , Mohamed Cheriet , Thomas Milo , Robert Wisnovsky

The Arabic Sign Language has endorsed outstanding research achievements for identifying gestures and hand signs using the deep learning methodology. The term "forms of communication" refers to the actions used by hearing-impaired people to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Rady El Rwelli , Osama R. Shahin , Ahmed I. Taloba

Sentiment classification is a fundamental task in natural language processing, assigning one of the three classes, positive, negative, or neutral, to free texts. However, sentiment classification models are highly domain dependent; the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mahboobeh Sadat Kobari , Nima Karimi , Benyamin Pourhosseini , Ramin Mousa

Capsule networks (CapsNets) are an emerging trend in image processing. In contrast to a convolutional neural network, CapsNets are not vulnerable to object deformation, as the relative spatial information of the objects is preserved across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Miguel Costa , Diogo Costa , Tiago Gomes , Sandro Pinto

Speaker recognition systems are widely used in various applications to identify a person by their voice; however, the high degree of variability in speech signals makes this a challenging task. Dealing with emotional variations is very…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ali Bou Nassif , Ismail Shahin , Ashraf Elnagar , Divya Velayudhan , Adi Alhudhaif , Kemal Polat

This paper presents a dialect identification (DID) system based on the transformer neural network architecture. The conventional convolutional neural network (CNN)-based systems use the shorter receptive fields. We believe that long range…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-03 Wanqiu Lin , Maulik Madhavi , Rohan Kumar Das , Haizhou Li

The basic computational unit in Capsule Network (CapsNet) is a capsule (vs. neurons in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)). A capsule is a set of neurons, which form a vector. CapsNet is used for supervised classification of data and has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Pouya Shiri , Ramin Sharifi , Amirali Baniasadi

Due to the omnipresence of mobile devices, online handwritten scripts have become the most important feeding input to smartphones and tablet devices. To increase online handwriting recognition performance, deeper neural networks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Hanen Akouaydi , Sourour Njah , Wael Ouarda , Anis Samet , Thameur Dhieb , Mourad Zaied , Adel M. Alimi

Handwritten digit recognition remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, with applications ranging from postal code reading to document digitization. This paper presents an ensemble-based approach that combines Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Syed Sajid Ullah , Li Gang , Mudassir Riaz , Ahsan Ashfaq , Salman Khan , Sajawal Khan