Visualization of Customized Convolutional Neural Network for Natural Language Recognition.

Journal: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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Abstract

For analytical approach-based word recognition techniques, the task of segmenting the word into individual characters is a big challenge, specifically for cursive handwriting. For this, a holistic approach can be a better option, wherein the entire word is passed to an appropriate recognizer. Gurumukhi script is a complex script for which a holistic approach can be proposed for offline handwritten word recognition. In this paper, the authors propose a Convolutional Neural Network-based architecture for recognition of the Gurumukhi month names. The architecture is designed with five convolutional layers and three pooling layers. The authors also prepared a dataset of 24,000 images, each with a size of 50 × 50. The dataset was collected from 500 distinct writers of different age groups and professions. The proposed method achieved training and validation accuracies of about 97.03% and 99.50%, respectively for the proposed dataset.

Authors

  • Tajinder Pal Singh
    Chitkara College of Applied Engineering, Chitkara University, Chandigarh 140401, Punjab, India.
  • Sheifali Gupta
    Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Chandigarh, Punjab, India.
  • Meenu Garg
    Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Chandigarh 140401, Punjab, India.
  • Deepali Gupta
    Chitkara University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India.
  • Abdullah Alharbi
    Department of Computer Science, Community College, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Hashem Alyami
    Department of Computer Science, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia.
  • Divya Anand
    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Chaheru, Punjab, India. divyaanand.y@gmail.com.
  • Arturo Ortega-Mansilla
    Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad Europea del Atlántico, C/Isabel Torres 21, 39011 Santander, Spain.
  • Nitin Goyal
    Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.