KNN and ANN-based Recognition of Handwritten Pashto Letters using Zoning Features

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Main Authors: Khan, Sulaiman, Ali, Hazrat, Ullah, Zahid, Minallah, Nasru, Maqsood, Shahid, Hafeez, Abdul
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author Khan, Sulaiman
Ali, Hazrat
Ullah, Zahid
Minallah, Nasru
Maqsood, Shahid
Hafeez, Abdul
author_facet Khan, Sulaiman
Ali, Hazrat
Ullah, Zahid
Minallah, Nasru
Maqsood, Shahid
Hafeez, Abdul
contents This paper presents a recognition system for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten character recognition is a challenging task. These letters not only differ in shape and style but also vary among individuals. The recognition becomes further daunting due to the lack of standard datasets for inscribed Pashto letters. In this work, we have designed a database of moderate size, which encompasses a total of 4488 images, stemming from 102 distinguishing samples for each of the 44 letters in Pashto. The recognition framework uses zoning feature extractor followed by K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) and Neural Network (NN) classifiers for classifying individual letter. Based on the evaluation of the proposed system, an overall classification accuracy of approximately 70.05% is achieved by using KNN while 72% is achieved by using NN.
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spellingShingle KNN and ANN-based Recognition of Handwritten Pashto Letters using Zoning Features
Khan, Sulaiman
Ali, Hazrat
Ullah, Zahid
Minallah, Nasru
Maqsood, Shahid
Hafeez, Abdul
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
This paper presents a recognition system for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten character recognition is a challenging task. These letters not only differ in shape and style but also vary among individuals. The recognition becomes further daunting due to the lack of standard datasets for inscribed Pashto letters. In this work, we have designed a database of moderate size, which encompasses a total of 4488 images, stemming from 102 distinguishing samples for each of the 44 letters in Pashto. The recognition framework uses zoning feature extractor followed by K-Nearest Neighbour (KNN) and Neural Network (NN) classifiers for classifying individual letter. Based on the evaluation of the proposed system, an overall classification accuracy of approximately 70.05% is achieved by using KNN while 72% is achieved by using NN.
title KNN and ANN-based Recognition of Handwritten Pashto Letters using Zoning Features
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03391