uTHCD: A New Benchmarking for Tamil Handwritten OCR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.07676v1
• Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:34:08 GMT
• Title: uTHCD: A New Benchmarking for Tamil Handwritten OCR
• Authors: Noushath Shaffi, Faizal Hajamohideen
• Abstract summary: Database consists of around 91000 samples with nearly 600 samples in each of 156 classes. The database is a unified collection of both online and offline samples. Paper also presents an ideal experimental set-up using the database on convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a baseline accuracy of 88% on test data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Handwritten character recognition is a challenging research in the field of document image analysis over many decades due to numerous reasons such as large writing styles variation, inherent noise in data, expansive applications it offers, non-availability of benchmark databases etc. There has been considerable work reported in literature about creation of the database for several Indic scripts but the Tamil script is still in its infancy as it has been reported only in one database [5]. In this paper, we present the work done in the creation of an exhaustive and large unconstrained Tamil Handwritten Character Database (uTHCD). Database consists of around 91000 samples with nearly 600 samples in each of 156 classes. The database is a unified collection of both online and offline samples. Offline samples were collected by asking volunteers to write samples on a form inside a specified grid. For online samples, we made the volunteers write in a similar grid using a digital writing pad. The samples collected encompass a vast variety of writing styles, inherent distortions arising from offline scanning process viz stroke discontinuity, variable thickness of stroke, distortion etc. Algorithms which are resilient to such data can be practically deployed for real time applications. The samples were generated from around 650 native Tamil volunteers including school going kids, homemakers, university students and faculty. The isolated character database will be made publicly available as raw images and Hierarchical Data File (HDF) compressed file. With this database, we expect to set a new benchmark in Tamil handwritten character recognition and serve as a launchpad for many avenues in document image analysis domain. Paper also presents an ideal experimental set-up using the database on convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a baseline accuracy of 88% on test data.

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