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Character recognition techniques for printed documents are widely used for English language. However, the systems that are implemented to recognize Asian languages struggle to increase the accuracy of recognition. Among other Asian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 G. I. Gunarathna , M. A. P. Chamikara , R. G. Ragel

Bangla, one of the most widely spoken languages, remains underrepresented in state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, particularly under noisy and speaker-diverse conditions. This paper presents BanglaRobustNet, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Md Sazzadul Islam Ridoy , Mubaswira Ibnat Zidney , Sumi Akter , Md. Aminur Rahman

Arabic text recognition is a challenging task because of the cursive nature of Arabic writing system, its joint writing scheme, the large number of ligatures and many other challenges. Deep Learning DL models achieved significant progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Mohammad Fasha , Bassam Hammo , Nadim Obeid , Jabir Widian

The handwriting of an individual may vary substantially with factors such as mood, time, space, writing speed, writing medium and tool, writing topic, etc. It becomes challenging to perform automated writer verification/identification on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Chandranath Adak , Bidyut B. Chaudhuri , Michael Blumenstein

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

Retrieving textual information from natural scene images is an active research area in the field of computer vision with numerous practical applications. Detecting text regions and extracting text from signboards is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hasan Murad , Mohammed Eunus Ali

The ambition of a character recognition system is to transform a text document typed on paper into a digital format that can be manipulated by word processor software Unlike other languages, Arabic has unique features, while other language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-06-15 A. A Zaidan , B. B Zaidan , Hamid. A. Jalab , Hamdan. O. Alanazi , Rami Alnaqeib

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

This paper presents a high-quality dataset for evaluating the quality of Bangla word embeddings, which is a fundamental task in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Despite being the 7th most-spoken language in the world, Bangla…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Mousumi Akter , Souvika Sarkar , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

We introduce the Burmese Handwritten Digit Dataset (BHDD), a collection of 87,561 grayscale images of handwritten Burmese digits in ten classes. Each image is 28x28 pixels, following the MNIST format. The training set has 60,000 samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Swan Htet Aung , Hein Htet , Htoo Say Wah Khaing , Thuya Myo Nyunt

In this paper a method for recognition of handwritten devanagari characters is described. Here, feature vector is constituted by accumulated directional gradient changes in different segments, number of intersections points for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-07-01 Sandhya Arora , Latesh Malik , Debotosh Bhattacharjee , Mita Nasipuri

Sentiment analysis for the Bengali language has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. However, progress remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale and diverse annotated datasets. Although several Bengali sentiment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Akif Islam , Sujan Kumar Roy , Md. Ekramul Hamid

This study presents BanStereoSet, a dataset designed to evaluate stereotypical social biases in multilingual LLMs for the Bangla language. In an effort to extend the focus of bias research beyond English-centric datasets, we have localized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Mahammed Kamruzzaman , Abdullah Al Monsur , Shrabon Das , Enamul Hassan , Gene Louis Kim

Automatic image caption generation aims to produce an accurate description of an image in natural language automatically. However, Bangla, the fifth most widely spoken language in the world, is lagging considerably in the research and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Motiur Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed , Nafees Mansoor , Sifat Momen

Financial fraud detection has emerged as a critical research challenge amid the rapid expansion of digital financial platforms. Although machine learning approaches have demonstrated strong performance in identifying fraudulent activities,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Mohammad Shihab Uddin , Md Hasibul Amin , Nusrat Jahan Ema , Bushra Uddin , Tanvir Ahmed , Arif Hassan Zidan

In this work, we present BanglaParaphrase, a high-quality synthetic Bangla Paraphrase dataset curated by a novel filtering pipeline. We aim to take a step towards alleviating the low resource status of the Bangla language in the NLP domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ajwad Akil , Najrin Sultana , Abhik Bhattacharjee , Rifat Shahriyar

Extraction and recognition of Bangla text from video frame images is challenging due to complex color background, low-resolution etc. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for extraction and recognition of Bangla text form such video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Souvik Bhowmick , Purnendu Banerjee

Character segmentation has long been one of the most critical areas of optical character recognition process. Through this operation, an image of a sequence of characters, which may be connected in some cases, is decomposed into sub-images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Subhadip Basu , Chitrita Chaudhuri , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak K. Basu

Research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has increasingly become important due to applications such as text classification, text mining, sentiment analysis, POS tagging, named entity recognition, textual entailment, and many others.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Istiak Ahmad , Fahad AlQurashi , Rashid Mehmood

Reading scene text, that is, text appearing in images, has numerous application areas, including assistive technology, search, and e-commerce. Although scene text recognition in English has advanced significantly and is often considered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Anik De , Abhirama Subramanyam Penamakuri , Rajeev Yadav , Aditya Rathore , Harshiv Shah , Devesh Sharma , Sagar Agarwal , Pravin Kumar , Anand Mishra