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Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for Bengali, the world's fifth most spoken language, remains a significant challenge, critically hindering technological accessibility for its over 270 million speakers. This challenge is compounded by two…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Swadhin Biswas , Imran , Tuhin Sheikh

Automatic Image Captioning is the never-ending effort of creating syntactically and validating the accuracy of textual descriptions of an image in natural language with context. The encoder-decoder structure used throughout existing Bengali…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Md Aminul Haque Palash , MD Abdullah Al Nasim , Sourav Saha , Faria Afrin , Raisa Mallik , Sathishkumar Samiappan

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

Handwritten character recognition (HCR) remains a challenging pattern recognition problem despite decades of research, and lacks research on script independent recognition techniques. {\color{black}This is mainly because of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma

Many studies on (Offline) Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems have focused on building state-of-the-art models for line recognition on small corpora. However, adding HTR capability to a large scale multilingual OCR system poses new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 R. Reeve Ingle , Yasuhisa Fujii , Thomas Deselaers , Jonathan Baccash , Ashok C. Popat

Despite the existence of numerous Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools, the lack of comprehensive open-source systems hampers the progress of document digitization in various low-resource languages, including Bengali. Low-resource…

Sign language discourse is an essential mode of daily communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing people. However, research on Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) faces notable limitations, primarily due to the lack of datasets. Recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Husne Ara Rubaiyeat , Hasan Mahmud , Ahsan Habib , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Recent advancements in the field of computer vision with the help of deep neural networks have led us to explore and develop many existing challenges that were once unattended due to the lack of necessary technologies. Hand Sign/Gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Shahjalal Ahmed , Md. Rafiqul Islam , Jahid Hassan , Minhaz Uddin Ahmed , Bilkis Jamal Ferdosi , Sanjay Saha , Md. Shopon

Despite the transition to digital information exchange, many documents, such as invoices, taxes, memos and questionnaires, historical data, and answers to exam questions, still require handwritten inputs. In this regard, there is a need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Nazgul Toiganbayeva , Mahmoud Kasem , Galymzhan Abdimanap , Kairat Bostanbekov , Abdelrahman Abdallah , Anel Alimova , Daniyar Nurseitov

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

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

This work attempts to find the most optimal parameter setting of a deep artificial neural network (ANN) for Bengali digit dataset by pre-training it using stacked denoising autoencoder (SDA). Although SDA based recognition is hugely popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Al Mehdi Saadat Chowdhury , M. Shahidur Rahman , Asia Khanom , Tamanna Islam Chowdhury , Afaz Uddin

Bangla is the seventh most spoken language by a total number of speakers in the world, and yet the development of an automated grammar checker in this language is an understudied problem. Bangla grammatical error detection is a task of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Shayekh Bin Islam , Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir , Sihat Afnan

Hand gesture-based sign language recognition (SLR) is one of the most advanced applications of machine learning, and computer vision uses hand gestures. Although, in the past few years, many researchers have widely explored and studied how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Md. Al Mehedi Hasan , Md Hadiuzzaman , Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Jungpil Shin

Handwritten digit or numeral recognition is one of the classical issues in the area of pattern recognition and has seen tremendous advancement because of the recent wide availability of computing resources. Plentiful works have already done…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Md Fahim Sikder

Speech recognition is a fascinating process that offers the opportunity to interact and command the machine in the field of human-computer interactions. Speech recognition is a language-dependent system constructed directly based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 M. F. Mridha , Abu Quwsar Ohi , Md. Abdul Hamid , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar

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 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

Despite the growing progress in Natural Language Inference (NLI) research, resources for the Bengali language remain extremely limited. Existing Bengali NLI datasets exhibit several inconsistencies, including annotation errors, ambiguous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Farah Binta Haque , Md Yasin , Shishir Saha , Md Shoaib Akhter Rafi , Farig Sadeque

Bengali, spoken by over 300 million people, is a morphologically rich and lowresource language, posing challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This research presents an end-to-end framework for Bengali ASR, building on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Md. Nazmus Sakib , Golam Mahmud , Md. Maruf Bangabashi , Umme Ara Mahinur Istia , Md. Jahidul Islam , Partha Sarker , Afra Yeamini Prity