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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

The work presents a comparative assessment of seven different feature sets for recognition of handwritten Arabic numerals using a Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) based classifier. The seven feature sets employed here consist of shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Nibaran Das , Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Ram Sarkar , Subhadip Basu

In spite of the advances in pattern recognition technology, Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition (HBCR) (such as alpha-numeric and special characters) remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many perplexing characters and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Md Zahangir Alom , Paheding Sidike , Tarek M. Taha , Vijayan K. Asari

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

This study introduces an integrated approach to recognizing Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) using state-of-the-art deep learning models such as MobileNetV3, ResNet50, and EfficientNet-B2. These models are further enhanced by explainable AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Mazen Balat , Rewaa Awaad , Ahmed B. Zaky , Salah A. Aly

We propose an effective Hybrid Deep Learning (HDL) architecture for the task of determining the probability that a questioned handwritten word has been written by a known writer. HDL is an amalgamation of Auto-Learned Features (ALF) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh , Mihir Chauhan , Jun Chu , Sargur Srihari

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

Arabic is a semitic language characterized by a complex and rich morphology. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Sherif Abdou

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

In this paper, we introduce the first phase of a new dataset for offline Arabic handwriting recognition. The aim is to collect a very large dataset of isolated Arabic words that covers all letters of the alphabet in all possible shapes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-19 Mohamed E. Hussein , Marwan Torki , Ahmed Elsallamy , Mahmoud Fayyaz

Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study introduces Qalam, a novel foundation model designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

This article discusses the problem of handwriting recognition in Kazakh and Russian languages. This area is poorly studied since in the literature there are almost no works in this direction. We have tried to describe various approaches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Daniyar Nurseitov , Kairat Bostanbekov , Maksat Kanatov , Anel Alimova , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Galymzhan Abdimanap

In this paper, the problem of handwritten digit recognition has been addressed. However, the underlying language is Persian/Arabic, and the system with which this task is a capsule network (CapsNet) has recently emerged as a more advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Ali Ghofrani , Rahil Mahdian Toroghi

This paper presents a new probabilistic graphical model used to model and recognize words representing the names of Tunisian cities. In fact, this work is based on a dynamic hierarchical Bayesian network. The aim is to find the best model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Khaoula jayech , Nesrine Trimech , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Najoua Essoukri Ben Amara

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

An off-line handwritten alphabetical character recognition system using multilayer feed forward neural network is described in the paper. A new method, called, diagonal based feature extraction is introduced for extracting the features of…

Computation · Statistics 2011-03-03 J. Pradeep , E. Srinivasan , S. Himavathi

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

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) under limited labeled data remains a challenging problem, particularly for Arabic-script languages. Although modern sequence-based recognizers perform well in high-resource settings, their accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sana Al-azzawi , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

Amharic is the official language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. There are lots of historic Amharic and Ethiopic handwritten documents addressing various relevant issues including governance, science, religious, social…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Abiot Sinamo Boltena , Hadi Samer Jomaa

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