scholarly journals Line-segment Feature Analysis Algorithm Using Input Dimensionality Reduction for Handwritten Text Recognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 6904
Author(s):  
Chang-Min Kim ◽  
Ellen J. Hong ◽  
Kyungyong Chung ◽  
Roy C. Park

Recently, demand for handwriting recognition, such as automation of mail sorting, license plate recognition, and electronic memo pads, has exponentially increased in various industrial fields. In addition, in the image recognition field, methods using artificial convolutional neural networks, which show outstanding performance, have been applied to handwriting recognition. However, owing to the diversity of recognition application fields, the number of dimensions in the learning and reasoning processes is increasing. To solve this problem, a principal component analysis (PCA) technique is used for dimensionality reduction. However, PCA is likely to increase the accuracy loss due to data compression. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a line-segment feature analysis (LFA) algorithm for input dimensionality reduction in handwritten text recognition. This proposed algorithm extracts the line segment information, constituting the image of input data, and assigns a unique value to each segment using 3 × 3 and 5 × 5 filters. Using the unique values to identify the number of line segments and adding them up, a 1-D vector with a size of 512 is created. This vector is used as input to machine-learning. For the performance evaluation of the method, the Extending Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (EMNIST) database was used. In the evaluation, PCA showed 96.6% and 93.86% accuracy with k-nearest neighbors (KNN) and support vector machine (SVM), respectively, while LFA showed 97.5% and 98.9% accuracy with KNN and SVM, respectively.

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Abdelrahman Abdallah ◽  
Mohamed Hamada ◽  
Daniyar Nurseitov

This article considers the task of handwritten text recognition using attention-based encoder–decoder networks trained in the Kazakh and Russian languages. We have developed a novel deep neural network model based on a fully gated CNN, supported by multiple bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BGRU) and attention mechanisms to manipulate sophisticated features that achieve 0.045 Character Error Rate (CER), 0.192 Word Error Rate (WER), and 0.253 Sequence Error Rate (SER) for the first test dataset and 0.064 CER, 0.24 WER and 0.361 SER for the second test dataset. Our proposed model is the first work to handle handwriting recognition models in Kazakh and Russian languages. Our results confirm the importance of our proposed Attention-Gated-CNN-BGRU approach for training handwriting text recognition and indicate that it can lead to statistically significant improvements (p-value < 0.05) in the sensitivity (recall) over the tests dataset. The proposed method’s performance was evaluated using handwritten text databases of three languages: English, Russian, and Kazakh. It demonstrates better results on the Handwritten Kazakh and Russian (HKR) dataset than the other well-known models.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-214
Author(s):  
Rajib Ghosh ◽  
Prabhat Kumar

Background: The growing use of smart hand-held devices in the daily lives of the people urges for the requirement of online handwritten text recognition. Online handwritten text recognition refers to the identification of the handwritten text at the very moment it is written on a digitizing tablet using some pen-like stylus. Several techniques are available for online handwritten text recognition in English, Arabic, Latin, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean scripts. However, limited research is available for Indic scripts. Objective: This article presents a novel approach for online handwritten numeral and character (simple and compound) recognition of three popular Indic scripts - Devanagari, Bengali and Tamil. Methods: The proposed work employs the Zone wise Slopes of Dominant Points (ZSDP) method for feature extraction from the individual characters. Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) classifiers are used for recognition process. Recognition efficiency is improved by combining the probabilistic outcomes of the SVM and HMM classifiers using Dempster-Shafer theory. The system is trained using separate as well as combined dataset of numerals, simple and compound characters. Results: The performance of the present system is evaluated using large self-generated datasets as well as public datasets. Results obtained from the present work demonstrate that the proposed system outperforms the existing works in this regard. Conclusion: This work will be helpful to carry out researches on online recognition of handwritten character in other Indic scripts as well as recognition of isolated words in various Indic scripts including the scripts used in the present work.


Author(s):  
Mohamed Elleuch ◽  
Monji Kherallah

In recent years, deep learning (DL) based systems have become very popular for constructing hierarchical representations from unlabeled data. Moreover, DL approaches have been shown to exceed foregoing state of the art machine learning models in various areas, by pattern recognition being one of the more important cases. This paper applies Convolutional Deep Belief Networks (CDBN) to textual image data containing Arabic handwritten script (AHS) and evaluated it on two different databases characterized by the low/high-dimension property. In addition to the benefits provided by deep networks, the system is protected against over-fitting. Experimentally, the authors demonstrated that the extracted features are effective for handwritten character recognition and show very good performance comparable to the state of the art on handwritten text recognition. Yet using Dropout, the proposed CDBN architectures achieved a promising accuracy rates of 91.55% and 98.86% when applied to IFN/ENIT and HACDB databases, respectively.


Handwriting Detection is a technique or ability of a Computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from source such as paper documents, touch screen, photo graphs etc. Handwritten Text recognition is one of area pattern recognition. The purpose of pattern recognition is to categorizing or classification data or object of one of the classes or categories. Handwriting recognition is defined as the task of transforming a language represented in its spatial form of graphical marks into its symbolic representation. Each script has a set of icons, which are known as characters or letters, which have certain basic shapes. The goal of handwriting is to identify input characters or image correctly then analyzed to many automated process systems. This system will be applied to detect the writings of different format. The development of handwriting is more sophisticated, which is found various kinds of handwritten character such as digit, numeral, cursive script, symbols, and scripts including English and other languages. The automatic recognition of handwritten text can be extremely useful in many applications where it is necessary to process large volumes of handwritten data, such as recognition of addresses and postcodes on envelopes, interpretation of amounts on bank checks, document analysis, and verification of signatures. Therefore, computer is needed to be able to read document or data for ease of document processing.


Author(s):  
Rosalina Rosalina ◽  
Johanes Parlindungan Hutagalung ◽  
Genta Sahuri

<span id="orcid-id" class="orcid-id-https">These days there is a huge demand in “storing the information available in paper documents into a computer storage disk”. Digitizing manual filled forms lead to handwriting recognition, a process of translating handwriting into machine editable text. The main objective of this research is to to create an Android application able to recognize and predict the output of handwritten characters by training a neural network model. This research will implement deep neural network in recognizing handwritten text recognition especially to recognize digits, Latin / Alphabet and Hiragana, capture an image or choose the image from gallery to scan the handwritten text from the image, use the live camera to detect the handwritten text real – time without capturing an image and could copy the results of the output from the off-line recognition and share it to other platforms such as notes, Email, and social media. </span>


In Sindhi Language, handwritten text feature extraction is such a challenging task for all scholars, because different people write in different styles or manners, to analyze each text is such a complex problem. Feature extraction of text segmentation, classifying each character and labelling for training data to recognize text for different handwritings and testing for analyzing features of providing handwritten text data .In this research, SVM (support vector machine) is used for analyzing and tokenizing each character or word of Sindhi Language text and transform into suitable information with efficiency & accuracy. The research is not only useful for improving the knowledge of Sindhi Handwritten Text Recognition but it can be beneficial for other recognition systems


Author(s):  
Novie Theresia Br Pasaribu ◽  
M. Jimmy Hasugian

Offline handwriting recognition is one of the most prominent research topics due to its tremendous application and high variability as well. This paper covers the offline Batak Toba handwritten text recognition, from the noise removal, the process of feature extraction until the recognition by using several classifiers. Experiments show that elliptic fourier descriptor (EFD) is the most discriminative feature and Mahalanobis distance (MD) outperforms the two others classifier.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Twana Latif Mohammed ◽  
Ahmed Abdullah Ahmed

Handwritten text recognition has been an ongoing attractive task to research in the field of document analysis and recognition with applications in handwriting forensics, paleography, document examination, and handwriting recognition. In the present research, an automatic method of writer recognition is presented using digitized images of unconstrained texts. Despite the increasing efforts by prior literature on the different methods used for the same purpose, such methods performance, particularly their accuracy, has not been promising, leaving plenty of room for improvements. This method made use of codebook-based writer characterization, with each writing sample represented by a group of computed features from a primary and secondary codebook. The writings were then represented through the computation of the probability of codebook patterns occurrence, and the probability distribution was employed for each writer’s characterization. Writer identification process involved comparing two writings through the computation of the distances between their respective probability distribution. The study carried out experiments to determine the performance of the implemented method in light of rates of identification with the help of standard datasets, namely, KRDOH and IAM, the former being the most current and largest Kurdish handwritten datasets with 1076 writers, and the latter being a dataset containing 650 writers. The outcome of the experiments was promising with a rate of identification of 94.3%, with the proposed method outperforming the state-of-the-art methods by 2–3%.


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