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This paper presents a hand-written character recognition comparison and performance evaluation for robust and precise classification of different hand-written characters. The system utilizes advanced multilayer deep neural network by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Moazam Soomro , Muhammad Ali Farooq , Rana Hammad Raza

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(HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions.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

Handwriting-based gender classification is a well-researched problem that has been approached mainly by traditional machine learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning-based approach for this task. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Evyatar Illouz , Eli David , Nathan S. Netanyahu

Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Irrespective of language, there are some inherent challenges of HDR, which mostly arise due to the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Sabbir Ahmed , Tasnim Ahmed , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Mohammad Ridwan Kabir , Md. Hasanul Kabir

Even today in Twenty First Century Handwritten communication has its own stand and most of the times, in daily life it is globally using as means of communication and recording the information like to be shared with others. Challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Yusuf Perwej , Ashish Chaturvedi

One of the most arduous and captivating domains under image processing is handwritten character recognition. In this paper we have proposed a feature extraction technique which is a combination of unique features of geometric, zone-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Sai Abhishikth Ayyadevara , P N V Sai Ram Teja , Bharath K P , Rajesh Kumar M

Despite considerable progress in handwritten text recognition, paragraph-level handwritten text recognition, especially in low-resource languages, such as Hindi, Urdu and similar scripts, remains a challenging problem. These languages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sayantan Dey , Alireza Alaei , Partha Pratim Roy

The text-independent approach to writer identification does not require the writer to write some predetermined text. Previous research on text-independent writer identification has been based on identifying writer-specific features designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Hung Tuan Nguyen , Cuong Tuan Nguyen , Takeya Ino , Bipin Indurkhya , Masaki Nakagawa

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

The recognition of Chinese characters has always been a challenging task due to their huge variety and complex structures. The latest research proves that such an enormous character set can be decomposed into a collection of about 500…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Shaowei Wang , Guanjie Huang , Xiangyu Luo

The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jason Poulos , Rafael Valle

Bangla language consists of fifty distinct characters and many compound characters. Several notable studies have been performed to recognize Bangla characters, both handwritten and optical. Our approach uses transfer learning to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Karim , S M Rafiuddin , Jahidul Islam Razin , Tahira Alam

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

In this paper we introduce a script identification method based on hand-crafted texture features and an artificial neural network. The proposed pipeline achieves near state-of-the-art performance for script identification of video-text and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Anguelos Nicolaou , Andrew Bagdanov , Lluis Gomez-Bigorda , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Recent researches introduced fast, compact and efficient convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for offline handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR). However, many of them did not address the problem of network interpretability. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Pavlo Melnyk , Zhiqiang You , Keqin Li

Handwritten text recognition has been developed rapidly in the recent years, following the rise of deep learning and its applications. Though deep learning methods provide notable boost in performance concerning text recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Basilis Gatos , Christophoros Nikou

We describe a method for classification of handwritten Kannada characters using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Kannada script is agglutinative, where simple shapes are concatenated horizontally to form a character. This results in a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-17 Manasij Venkatesh , Vikas Majjagi , Deepu Vijayasenan

Handwritten character recognition is a hot topic for research nowadays. If we can convert a handwritten piece of paper into a text-searchable document using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technique, we can easily understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon , Raihan Tanvir , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam

This paper proposes an end-to-end framework, namely fully convolutional recurrent network (FCRN) for handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR). Unlike traditional methods that rely heavily on segmentation, our FCRN is trained with online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Zecheng Xie , Zenghui Sun , Lianwen Jin , Ziyong Feng , Shuye Zhang

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that offers comprehensive alphanumeric recognition of handwritten and printed characters at electronic speed by merely scanning the document. Recently, the understanding of visual data has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Atman Mishra , A. Sharath Ram , Kavyashree C