Multi-Head Attention based interaction-aware architecture for Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition: Introducing a Primary Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09717v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:18:08 GMT
• Title: Multi-Head Attention based interaction-aware architecture for Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition: Introducing a Primary Dataset
• Abstract summary: We have constructed a new balanced dataset of Bangla written characters.<n>It contains the basic characters, composite (Juktobarno) characters and numerals.<n>The proposed model achieves 98.84% accuracy on the constructed dataset and 96.49% on the external CHBCR benchmark.
• Score: 2.0524609401792397
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be done accurately through character recognition. Nonetheless, recognizing handwritten Bangla characters is not an easy task because they are written in different styles with inconsistent stroke patterns and a high degree of visual character resemblance. The datasets available are usually limited in intra-class and inequitable in class distribution. We have constructed a new balanced dataset of Bangla written characters to overcome those problems. This consists of 78 classes and each class has approximately 650 samples. It contains the basic characters, composite (Juktobarno) characters and numerals. The samples were a diverse group comprising a large age range and socioeconomic groups. Elementary and high school students, university students, and professionals are the contributing factors. The sample also has right and left-handed writers. We have further proposed an interaction-aware hybrid deep learning architecture that integrates EfficientNetB3, Vision Transformer, and Conformer modules in parallel. A multi-head cross-attention fusion mechanism enables effective feature interaction across these components. The proposed model achieves 98.84% accuracy on the constructed dataset and 96.49% on the external CHBCR benchmark, demonstrating strong generalization capability. Grad-CAM visualizations further provide interpretability by highlighting discriminative regions. The dataset and source code of this research is publicly available at: https://huggingface.co/MIRZARAQUIB/Bangla_Handwritten_Character_Recognition.

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