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Handwritten Numeral recognition plays a vital role in postal automation services especially in countries like India where multiple languages and scripts are used Discrete Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and hybrid of Neural Network (NN) and HMM…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Anshuman Sharma

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

Soft computing approaches are mainly designed to address the real world ill-defined, imprecisely formulated problems, combining different kind of novel models of computation, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms (GAs. Handwritten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Nibaran Das , Subhadip Basu , Punam Kumar Saha , Ram Sarkar , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri

Handwriting recognition has been one of the most fascinating and challenging research areas in field of image processing and pattern recognition. It contributes enormously to the improvement of automation process. In this paper, a system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Jomy John

A set of features independent of character stroke direction and order variations is proposed for online handwritten character recognition. A method is developed that maps features like co-ordinates of points, orientations of strokes at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Anand Sharma , A. G. Ramakrishnan

In this work, a novel deep learning technique for the recognition of handwritten Bangla isolated compound character is presented and a new benchmark of recognition accuracy on the CMATERdb 3.1.3.3 dataset is reported. Greedy layer wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Saikat Roy , Nibaran Das , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri

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

This study investigates the performance of few-shot learning (FSL) approaches in recognizing Bangla handwritten characters and numerals using limited labeled data. It demonstrates the applicability of these methods to scripts with intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Mehedi Ahamed , Radib Bin Kabir , Tawsif Tashwar Dipto , Mueeze Al Mushabbir , Sabbir Ahmed , Md. Hasanul Kabir

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

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

Handwritten character classification in the Bengali script is a significant challenge due to the complexity and variability of the characters. The models commonly used for classification are often computationally expensive and data-hungry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Rafi Hassan Chowdhury , Naimul Haque , Kaniz Fatiha

An efficient, scalable and robust approach to the handwritten digits recognition problem based on the Saak transform is proposed in this work. First, multi-stage Saak transforms are used to extract a family of joint spatial-spectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Yueru Chen , Zhuwei Xu , Shanshan Cai , Yujian Lang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Images of handwritten digits are different from natural images as the orientation of a digit, as well as similarity of features of different digits, makes confusion. On the other hand, deep convolutional neural networks are achieving huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 A. Sufian , Anirudha Ghosh , Avijit Naskar , Farhana Sultana , Jaya Sil , M M Hafizur Rahman

This paper presents a recognition system for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten character recognition is a challenging task. These letters not only differ in shape and style but also vary among individuals. The recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sulaiman Khan , Hazrat Ali , Zahid Ullah , Nasru Minallah , Shahid Maqsood , Abdul Hafeez

In any multi-script environment, handwritten script classification is of paramount importance before the document images are fed to their respective Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engines. Over the years, this complex pattern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Ritam Guha , Manosij Ghosh , Pawan Kumar Singh , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

Handwritten character recognition is an active research challenge,especially for Indian scripts. This paper deals with handwritten Malayalam, with a complete set of basic characters, vowel and consonant signs and compound characters that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jomy John

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of basic Bangla characters using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated Bangla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Debkumar Ghosal , Tanmoy Das , Subhrajit Dutta , Subhadip Basu

Segmentation of handwritten document images into text lines and words is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in the development of a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system. This paper addresses the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Pawan Kumar Singh , Shubham Sinha , Sagnik Pal Chowdhury , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

This paper presents a novel approach towards Indic handwritten word recognition using zone-wise information. Because of complex nature due to compound characters, modifiers, overlapping and touching, etc., character segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Partha Pratim Roy , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Ayan Das , Prasenjit Dey , Umapada Pal

Various machine learning methods for writer independent recognition of Malayalam handwritten district names are discussed in this paper. Data collected from 56 different writers are used for the experiments. The proposed work can be used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Jino P J , Kannan Balakrishnan

In this paper, we propose a solution which uses state-of-the-art techniques in Deep Learning to tackle the problem of Bengali Handwritten Character Recognition ( HCR ). Our method uses lesser iterations to train than most other comparable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Swagato Chatterjee , Rwik Kumar Dutta , Debayan Ganguly , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Sudipta Roy