Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network

Recognition of handwritten numerals has gained much interest in recent years due to its various application potentials. Although Bangla is a major language in Indian subcontinent and is the first language of Bangladesh study regarding Bangla handwritten numeral recognition (BHNR) is very few wit...

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Main Authors: Akhand, M. A. H, Rahman, Md. Mahbubar, Shill, P. C., Islam, Shahidul, Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
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spelling iium-442502017-09-25T01:08:35Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/ Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network Akhand, M. A. H Rahman, Md. Mahbubar Shill, P. C. Islam, Shahidul Rahman, M.M. Hafizur TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Recognition of handwritten numerals has gained much interest in recent years due to its various application potentials. Although Bangla is a major language in Indian subcontinent and is the first language of Bangladesh study regarding Bangla handwritten numeral recognition (BHNR) is very few with respect to other major languages such Roman. The existing BHNR methods uses distinct feature extraction techniques and various classification tools in their recognition schemes. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) is found efficient for image classification with its distinct features. It also automatically provides some degree of translation invariance. In this paper, a CNN based BHNR is investigated. The proposed BHNR-CNN normalizes the written numeral images and then employ CNN to classify individual numerals. It does not employ any feature extraction method like other related works. 17000 hand written numerals with different shapes, sizes and variations are used in this study. The proposed method is shown satisfactory recognition accuracy and outperformed other prominent exiting methods. IEEE 2015-05-21 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/7/44250-Bangla_handwritten_numeral_recognition_using_convolutional_neural_network_Fullpaper.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/10/44250_Bangla%20handwritten%20numeral%20recognition_Scopus.pdf Akhand, M. A. H and Rahman, Md. Mahbubar and Shill, P. C. and Islam, Shahidul and Rahman, M.M. Hafizur (2015) Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network. In: 2nd International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (iCEEiCT 2015), 21st-23rd May2015, Dhaka, Bangladesh. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7307467&tag=1 10.1109/ICEEICT.2015.7307467
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topic TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Akhand, M. A. H
Rahman, Md. Mahbubar
Shill, P. C.
Islam, Shahidul
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
description Recognition of handwritten numerals has gained much interest in recent years due to its various application potentials. Although Bangla is a major language in Indian subcontinent and is the first language of Bangladesh study regarding Bangla handwritten numeral recognition (BHNR) is very few with respect to other major languages such Roman. The existing BHNR methods uses distinct feature extraction techniques and various classification tools in their recognition schemes. Recently, convolutional neural network (CNN) is found efficient for image classification with its distinct features. It also automatically provides some degree of translation invariance. In this paper, a CNN based BHNR is investigated. The proposed BHNR-CNN normalizes the written numeral images and then employ CNN to classify individual numerals. It does not employ any feature extraction method like other related works. 17000 hand written numerals with different shapes, sizes and variations are used in this study. The proposed method is shown satisfactory recognition accuracy and outperformed other prominent exiting methods.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Akhand, M. A. H
Rahman, Md. Mahbubar
Shill, P. C.
Islam, Shahidul
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
author_facet Akhand, M. A. H
Rahman, Md. Mahbubar
Shill, P. C.
Islam, Shahidul
Rahman, M.M. Hafizur
author_sort Akhand, M. A. H
title Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
title_short Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
title_full Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
title_fullStr Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
title_full_unstemmed Bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
title_sort bangla handwritten numeral recognition using convolutional neural network
publisher IEEE
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/7/44250-Bangla_handwritten_numeral_recognition_using_convolutional_neural_network_Fullpaper.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/44250/10/44250_Bangla%20handwritten%20numeral%20recognition_Scopus.pdf
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