Open AccessOffline Handwritten Character Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network
Author(s) -
N. Bharatha Devi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal for research in applied science and engineering technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2321-9653
DOI - 10.22214/ijraset.2021.37610
Subject(s) - devanagari , computer science , convolutional neural network , artificial intelligence , pattern recognition (psychology) , character (mathematics) , neocognitron , grayscale , test set , set (abstract data type) , pooling , speech recognition , convolution (computer science) , artificial neural network , handwriting recognition , intelligent word recognition , feature extraction , character recognition , image (mathematics) , intelligent character recognition , mathematics , geometry , programming language
This paper focuses on the task of recognizing handwritten Hindi characters using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based. The recognized characters can then be stored digitally in the computer or used for other purposes. The dataset used is obtained from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository which contains 92,000 images divided into training (80%) and test set (20%). It contains different forms of handwritten Devanagari characters written by different individuals which can be used to train and test handwritten text recognizers. It contains four CNN layers followed by three fully connected layers for recognition. Grayscale handwritten character images are used as input. Filters are applied on the images to extract different features at each layer. This is done by the Convolution operation. The two other main operations involved are Pooling and Flattening. The output of the CNN layers is fed to the fully connected layers. Finally, the chance or probability score of each character is determined and the character with the highest probability score is shown as the output. A recognition accuracy of 98.94% is obtained. Similar models exist for the purpose, but the proposed model achieved a better performance and accuracy than some of the earlier models. Keywords: Devanagari characters, Convolutional Neural Networks, Image Processing