IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 11, No 3: September 2022

A machine learning approach for Bengali handwritten vowel character recognition

Shahrukh Ahsan (American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB))
Shah Tarik Nawaz (American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB))
Talha Bin Sarwar (Universiti Malaysia Pahang)
M. Saef Ullah Miah (Universiti Malaysia Pahang)
Abhijit Bhowmik (American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB))



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2022

Abstract

Recognition of handwritten characters is complex because of the different shapes and numbers of characters. Many handwritten character recognition strategies have been proposed for both English and other major dialects. Bengali is generally considered the fifth most spoken local language in the world. It is the official and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken among the 22 posted dialects of India. To improve the recognition of handwritten Bengali characters, we developed a different approach in this study using face mapping. It is quite effective in distinguishing different characters. The real highlight is that the recognition results are more efficient than expected with a simple machine learning technique. The proposed method uses the Python library Scikit-Learn, including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and support vector machine (SVM) classifier. The proposed model uses a dataset derived from the BanglaLekha isolated dataset for the training and testing part. The new approach shows positive results and looks promising. It showed accuracy up to 94% for a particular character and 91% on average for all characters.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...