Stacked autoencoder for Arabic handwriting word recognition
by Samir Benbakreti; Mohamed Benouis; Ahmed Roumane; Soumia Benbakreti
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 24, No. 6, 2021

Abstract: Arabic handwritten recognition systems face several challenges such as the very diverse scripting styles, the presence of pseudo-words and the position-dependent shape of a character inside a given word, etc. These characteristics complicate the task of features extraction. Our proposed solution to this problem is a stacked autoencoder (SAE) unsupervised learning approach applied to resolve the unconstrained Arabic handwritten word recognition. Our strategy consists in using an unsupervised pre-training stage, i.e., SAE which will extract the features layer by layer, then, through fine-tuning, the global system will be used for classification tasks. By exploiting this, our system gets the advantage of applying a holistic approach, i.e., without word segmentation. In order to train our model, we have enhanced the NOUN v3 hybrid (i.e., offline and online) database that contains 9,600 handwritten Arabic words and 4,800 characters. However, this work is focusing on the offline recognition of Arabic word handwriting using a SAE-based architecture for images classification. Our experiment study shows that after a careful tuning of the main SAE parameters we got good results (98.03%).

Online publication date: Tue, 04-Jan-2022

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