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Recognition of Arabic characters is essential for natural language processing and computer vision fields. The need to recognize and classify the handwritten Arabic letters and characters are essentially required. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mahmoud Shams , Amira. A. Elsonbaty , Wael. Z. ElSawy

Handwritten character recognition is getting popular among researchers because of its possible applications in facilitating technological search engines, social media, recommender systems, etc. The Devanagari script is one of the oldest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Diksha Mehta , Prateek Mehta

Handwritten character recognition is a challenging research in the field of document image analysis over many decades due to numerous reasons such as large writing styles variation, inherent noise in data, expansive applications it offers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Noushath Shaffi , Faizal Hajamohideen

The work presented here involves the design of a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) based classifier for recognition of handwritten Bangla alphabet using a 76 element feature set Bangla is the second most popular script and language in the Indian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-06 Subhadip Basu , Nibaran Das , Ram Sarkar , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

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

A classifier is developed that defines a joint distribution of global character features, number of sub-units and local sub-unit features to model Hindi online handwritten characters. The classifier uses latent variables to model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Anand Sharma , A. G. Ramakrishnan

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 2014-01-24 V. Karthikeyan , M. Divya , C. K. Chithra , K. Manju Priya

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

In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line handwritten character recognition. The proposed methodology relies on a new feature extraction technique based on structural characteristics, histograms and profiles. As novelty, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 José Manuel Casas , Nick Inassaridze , Manuel Ladra , Susana Ladra

This paper presents results of a study of the performance of several base classifiers for recognition of handwritten characters of the modern Latin alphabet. Base classification performance is further enhanced by utilizing Viterbi error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hélder Campos , Nuno Paulino

Traditional approaches for handwritten Chinese character recognition suffer in classifying similar characters. In this paper, we propose to discriminate similar handwritten Chinese characters by using weakly supervised learning. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Zhibo Yang , Huanle Xu , Keda Fu , Yong Xia

The main challenge in on-line handwritten character recognition in Indian lan- guage is the large size of the character set, larger similarity between different characters in the script and the huge variation in writing style. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Sunil Kumar Kopparapu , Lajish V. L

Bangla Handwritten Digit recognition is a significant step forward in the development of Bangla OCR. However, intricate shape, structural likeness and distinctive composition style of Bangla digits makes it relatively challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Md. Ferdous Wahid , Md. Fahim Shahriar , Md. Shohanur Islam Sobuj

Handwritten numeral recognition is in general a benchmark problem of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. Compared to the problem of printed numeral recognition, the problem of handwritten numeral recognition is compounded due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Nibaran Das , Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Sudip Saha , Syed Sahidul Haque

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

The success rates of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for printed Malayalam documents is quite impressive with the state of the art accuracy levels in the range of 85-95% for various. However for real applications, further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Sajilal Divakaran

Handwritten character recognition is a crucial task because of its abundant applications. The recognition task of Bangla handwritten characters is especially challenging because of the cursive nature of Bangla characters and the presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Chandrika Saha , Md Mostafijur Rahman

A novel, generic scheme for off-line handwritten English alphabets character images is proposed. The advantage of the technique is that it can be applied in a generic manner to different applications and is expected to perform better in…

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

Handwritten text recognition is challenging because of the virtually infinite ways a human can write the same message. Our fully convolutional handwriting model takes in a handwriting sample of unknown length and outputs an arbitrary stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Felipe Petroski Such , Dheeraj Peri , Frank Brockler , Paul Hutkowski , Raymond Ptucha

Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mirza Raquib , Asif Pervez Polok , Kedar Nath Biswas , Farida Siddiqi Prity , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi