Qin Qin¹, Xuan Jiang^1,*, Jinhua Jiang¹, Dongfang Zhao¹, Zimei Tu¹, Zhiwei Shen²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 4849-4867, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067919 - 23 October 2025

Abstract The effectiveness of industrial character recognition on cast steel is often compromised by factors such as corrosion, surface defects, and low contrast, which hinder the extraction of reliable visual information. The problem is further compounded by the scarcity of large-scale annotated datasets and complex noise patterns in real-world factory environments. This makes conventional OCR techniques and standard deep learning models unreliable. To address these limitations, this study proposes a unified framework that integrates adaptive image preprocessing with collaborative reasoning among LLMs. A Biorthogonal 4.4 (bior4.4) wavelet transform is adaptively tuned using DE to enhance character… More >

Candan Tumer¹, Erdal Guvenoglu², Volkan Tunali^3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.3, pp. 5135-5158, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.067840 - 23 October 2025

Abstract Automated cartoon character recognition is crucial for applications in content indexing, filtering, and copyright protection, yet it faces a significant challenge in animated media due to high intra-class visual variability, where characters frequently alter their appearance. To address this problem, we introduce the novel Kral Sakir dataset, a public benchmark of 16,725 images specifically curated for the task of multi-label cartoon character classification under these varied conditions. This paper conducts a comprehensive benchmark study, evaluating the performance of state-of-the-art pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), including DenseNet, ResNet, and VGG, against a custom baseline model trained More >

Syed Atir Raza^1,2, Muhammad Shoaib Farooq¹, Uzma Farooq³, Hanen Karamti ⁴, Tahir Khurshaid^5,*, Imran Ashraf^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3149-3173, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.063255 - 03 July 2025

Abstract Urdu, a prominent subcontinental language, serves as a versatile means of communication. However, its handwritten expressions present challenges for optical character recognition (OCR). While various OCR techniques have been proposed, most of them focus on recognizing printed Urdu characters and digits. To the best of our knowledge, very little research has focused solely on Urdu pure handwriting recognition, and the results of such proposed methods are often inadequate. In this study, we introduce a novel approach to recognizing Urdu pure handwritten digits and characters using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Our proposed method utilizes convolutional layers… More >

Sangmin Kim¹, Byeongcheon Lee¹, Muazzam Maqsood², Jihoon Moon^3,*, Seungmin Rho^4,*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.143, No.2, pp. 2079-2108, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2025.061653 - 30 May 2025

Abstract The increased accessibility of social networking services (SNSs) has facilitated communication and information sharing among users. However, it has also heightened concerns about digital safety, particularly for children and adolescents who are increasingly exposed to online grooming crimes. Early and accurate identification of grooming conversations is crucial in preventing long-term harm to victims. However, research on grooming detection in South Korea remains limited, as existing models trained primarily on English text and fail to reflect the unique linguistic features of SNS conversations, leading to inaccurate classifications. To address these issues, this study proposes a novel… More >

Abdelwahed Motwakel^1,*, Badriyya B. Al-onazi², Jaber S. Alzahrani³, Ayman Yafoz⁴, Mahmoud Othman⁵, Abu Sarwar Zamani¹, Ishfaq Yaseen¹, Amgad Atta Abdelmageed¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.5, pp. 1387-1403, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033902 - 13 September 2024

Abstract Handwritten character recognition becomes one of the challenging research matters. More studies were presented for recognizing letters of various languages. The availability of Arabic handwritten characters databases was confined. Almost a quarter of a billion people worldwide write and speak Arabic. More historical books and files indicate a vital data set for many Arab nations written in Arabic. Recently, Arabic handwritten character recognition (AHCR) has grabbed the attention and has become a difficult topic for pattern recognition and computer vision (CV). Therefore, this study develops fireworks optimization with the deep learning-based AHCR (FWODL-AHCR) technique. The… More >

Rudraneel Dutta^*, Shreya Mohanty

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.6, pp. 177-192, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jai.2024.050706 - 19 July 2024

Abstract Traditionally, exam preparation involves manually analyzing past question papers to identify and prioritize key topics. This research proposes a data-driven solution to automate this process using techniques like Document Layout Segmentation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modelling. This study aims to develop a system that utilizes machine learning and topic modelling to identify and rank key topics from historical exam papers, aiding students in efficient exam preparation. The research addresses the difficulty in exam preparation due to the manual and labour-intensive process of analyzing past exam papers to identify… More >

Adéla Hamplová^1,*, Alexey Lyavdansky^2,*, Tomáš Novák¹, Ondřej Svojše¹, David Franc¹, Arnošt Veselý¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 2869-2889, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.050791 - 08 July 2024

Abstract This study presents a single-class and multi-class instance segmentation approach applied to ancient Palmyrene inscriptions, employing two state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms, namely YOLOv8 and Roboflow 3.0. The goal is to contribute to the preservation and understanding of historical texts, showcasing the potential of modern deep learning methods in archaeological research. Our research culminates in several key findings and scientific contributions. We comprehensively compare the performance of YOLOv8 and Roboflow 3.0 in the context of Palmyrene character segmentation—this comparative analysis mainly focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of each algorithm in this context. We also created… More >

Salah Alghyaline^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4905-4924, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052016 - 20 June 2024

Abstract Handwritten character recognition is considered challenging compared with machine-printed characters due to the different human writing styles. Arabic is morphologically rich, and its characters have a high similarity. The Arabic language includes 28 characters. Each character has up to four shapes according to its location in the word (at the beginning, middle, end, and isolated). This paper proposed 12 CNN architectures for recognizing handwritten Arabic characters. The proposed architectures were derived from the popular CNN architectures, such as VGG, ResNet, and Inception, to make them applicable to recognizing character-size images. The experimental results on three More >

Fares Alharbi¹, Reem Alshahrani², Mohammed Zakariah^3,*, Amjad Aldweesh¹, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3697-3722, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040086 - 26 December 2023

Abstract Privacy and trust are significant issues in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Data security is critical in ITS systems since sensitive user data is communicated to another user over the internet through wireless devices and routes such as radio channels, optical fiber, and blockchain technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of connected, interconnected gadgets. Privacy issues occasionally arise due to the amount of data generated. However, they have been primarily addressed by blockchain and smart contract technology. While there are still security issues with smart contracts, primarily due to the complexity of writing… More >

Arfa Siddiqu, Abdul Basit^*, Waheed Noor, Muhammad Asfandyar Khan, M. Saeed H. Kakar, Azam Khan

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 875-885, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036426 - 29 April 2023

Abstract The optical character recognition for the right to left and cursive languages such as Arabic is challenging and received little attention from researchers in the past compared to the other Latin languages. Moreover, the absence of a standard publicly available dataset for several low-resource languages, including the Pashto language remained a hurdle in the advancement of language processing. Realizing that, a clean dataset is the fundamental and core requirement of character recognition, this research begins with dataset generation and aims at a system capable of complete language understanding. Keeping in view the complete and full… More >