Handwriting recognition is a challenge that interests many researchers around the world.As an exception,handwritten Arabic script has many objectives that remain to be overcome,given its complex form,their number of f...Handwriting recognition is a challenge that interests many researchers around the world.As an exception,handwritten Arabic script has many objectives that remain to be overcome,given its complex form,their number of forms which exceeds 100 and its cursive nature.Over the past few years,good results have been obtained,but with a high cost of memory and execution time.In this paper we propose to improve the capacity of bidirectional gated recurrent unit(BGRU)to recognize Arabic text.The advantages of using BGRUs is the execution time compared to other methods that can have a high success rate but expensive in terms of time andmemory.To test the recognition capacity of BGRU,the proposed architecture is composed by 6 convolutional neural network(CNN)blocks for feature extraction and 1 BGRU+2 dense layers for learning and test.The experiment is carried out on the entire database of institut für nachrichtentechnik/ecole nationale d’ingénieurs de Tunis(IFN/ENIT)without any preprocessing or data selection.The obtained results show the ability of BGRUs to recognize handwritten Arabic script.展开更多
基金This research was funded by the Deanship of the Scientific Research of the University of Ha’il,Saudi Arabia(Project:RG-20075).
文摘Handwriting recognition is a challenge that interests many researchers around the world.As an exception,handwritten Arabic script has many objectives that remain to be overcome,given its complex form,their number of forms which exceeds 100 and its cursive nature.Over the past few years,good results have been obtained,but with a high cost of memory and execution time.In this paper we propose to improve the capacity of bidirectional gated recurrent unit(BGRU)to recognize Arabic text.The advantages of using BGRUs is the execution time compared to other methods that can have a high success rate but expensive in terms of time andmemory.To test the recognition capacity of BGRU,the proposed architecture is composed by 6 convolutional neural network(CNN)blocks for feature extraction and 1 BGRU+2 dense layers for learning and test.The experiment is carried out on the entire database of institut für nachrichtentechnik/ecole nationale d’ingénieurs de Tunis(IFN/ENIT)without any preprocessing or data selection.The obtained results show the ability of BGRUs to recognize handwritten Arabic script.
