V. Jayanthi^*, S. Thenmalar

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3551-3564, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036599

Abstract In this paper, Modified Multi-scale Segmentation Network (MMU-SNet) method is proposed for Tamil text recognition. Handwritten texts from digital writing pad notes are used for text recognition. Handwritten words recognition for texts written from digital writing pad through text file conversion are challenging due to stylus pressure, writing on glass frictionless surfaces, and being less skilled in short writing, alphabet size, style, carved symbols, and orientation angle variations. Stylus pressure on the pad changes the words in the Tamil language alphabet because the Tamil alphabets have a smaller number of lines, angles, curves, and bends. The small change in dots,… More >

Turki M. Alanazi^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.36, No.3, pp. 3343-3354, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036411

Abstract Detecting and recognizing text from natural scene images presents a challenge because the image quality depends on the conditions in which the image is captured, such as viewing angles, blurring, sensor noise, etc. However, in this paper, a prototype for text detection and recognition from natural scene images is proposed. This prototype is based on the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Universal Serial Bus (USB) camera and embedded our text detection and recognition model, which was developed using the Python language. Our model is based on the deep learning text detector model through the Efficient and Accurate Scene Text Detector… More >

Junjie Zhou, Hongkui Xu^*, Zifeng Zhang, Jiangkun Lu, Wentao Guo, Zhenye Li

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.2, pp. 2277-2297, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.036419

Abstract Fraud cases have been a risk in society and people’s property security has been greatly threatened. In recent studies, many promising algorithms have been developed for social media offensive text recognition as well as sentiment analysis. These algorithms are also suitable for fraudulent phone text recognition. Compared to these tasks, the semantics of fraudulent words are more complex and more difficult to distinguish. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), the variants of RNN, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and hybrid neural networks to extract text features are used by most text classification research. However, a single network or a simple network combination cannot… More >

Ahmed Ben Atitallah^1,*, Mohamed Amin Ben Atitallah^2,3, Yahia Said^4,5, Mohammed Albekairi¹, Anis Boudabous⁶, Turki M. Alanazi¹, Khaled Kaaniche¹, Mohamed Atri⁷

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.46, No.1, pp. 701-717, 2023, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.035871

Abstract The challenge faced by the visually impaired persons in their day-to-day lives is to interpret text from documents. In this context, to help these people, the objective of this work is to develop an efficient text recognition system that allows the isolation, the extraction, and the recognition of text in the case of documents having a textured background, a degraded aspect of colors, and of poor quality, and to synthesize it into speech. This system basically consists of three algorithms: a text localization and detection algorithm based on mathematical morphology method (MMM); a text extraction algorithm based on the gamma… More >

Moeen Tayyab¹, Ayyaz Hussain^2,*, Usama Mir³, M. Aqeel Iqbal⁴, Muhammad Haneef⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6177-6193, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034669

Abstract The news ticker is a common feature of many different news networks that display headlines and other information. News ticker recognition applications are highly valuable in e-business and news surveillance for media regulatory authorities. In this paper, we focus on the automatic Arabic Ticker Recognition system for the Al-Ekhbariya news channel. The primary emphasis of this research is on ticker recognition methods and storage schemes. To that end, the research is aimed at character-wise explicit segmentation using a semantic segmentation technique and words identification method. The proposed learning architecture considers the grouping of homogeneous-shaped classes. This incorporates linguistic taxonomy in… More >

Ting Zhang, Yifei Wang, Xinxin Jin, Zhiwen Gu, Xiaoliang Zhang, Bin He^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.3, pp. 2267-2285, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.023229

Abstract Auto-grading, as an instruction tool, could reduce teachers’ workload, provide students with instant feedback and support highly personalized learning. Therefore, this topic attracts considerable attentions from researchers recently. To realize the automatic grading of handwritten chemistry assignments, the problem of chemical notations recognition should be solved first. The recent handwritten chemical notations recognition solutions belonging to the end-to-end trainable category suffered from the problem of lacking the accurate alignment information between the input and output. They serve the aim of reading notations into electrical devices to better prepare relevant e-documents instead of auto-grading handwritten assignments. To tackle this limitation to… More >

Hicham Lamtougui^1,*, Hicham El Moubtahij², Hassan Fouadi¹, Khalid Satori¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.2, pp. 2871-2888, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.032550

Abstract In recent years, Deep Learning models have become indispensable in several fields such as computer vision, automatic object recognition, and automatic natural language processing. The implementation of a robust and efficient handwritten text recognition system remains a challenge for the research community in this field, especially for the Arabic language, which, compared to other languages, has a dearth of published works. In this work, we presented an efficient and new system for offline Arabic handwritten text recognition. Our new approach is based on the combination of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and a Bidirectional Long-Term Memory (BLSTM) followed by a… More >

Sofiene Haboubi^1,*, Tawfik Guesmi², Badr M Alshammari², Khalid Alqunun², Ahmed S Alshammari², Haitham Alsaif², Hamid Amiri¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 5385-5397, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029198

Abstract Handwriting recognition is a challenge that interests many researchers around the world. As an exception, handwritten Arabic script has many objectives that remain to be overcome, given its complex form, their number of forms which exceeds 100 and its cursive nature. Over the past few years, good results have been obtained, but with a high cost of memory and execution time. In this paper we propose to improve the capacity of bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BGRU) to recognize Arabic text. The advantages of using BGRUs is the execution time compared to other methods that can have a high success rate… More >

S. Prabu, K. Joseph Abraham Sundar^*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.35, No.2, pp. 2071-2086, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.029105

Abstract Recognizing irregular text in natural images is a challenging task in computer vision. The existing approaches still face difficulties in recognizing irregular text because of its diverse shapes. In this paper, we propose a simple yet powerful irregular text recognition framework based on an encoder-decoder architecture. The proposed framework is divided into four main modules. Firstly, in the image transformation module, a Thin Plate Spline (TPS) transformation is employed to transform the irregular text image into a readable text image. Secondly, we propose a novel Spatial Attention Module (SAM) to compel the model to concentrate on text regions and obtain… More >

Gulzar Ahmed¹, Tahir Alyas², Muhammad Waseem Iqbal^3,*, Muhammad Usman Ashraf⁴, Ahmed Mohammed Alghamdi⁵, Adel A. Bahaddad⁶, Khalid Ali Almarhabi⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.2, pp. 2967-2984, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.029314

Abstract Handwritten character recognition systems are used in every field of life nowadays, including shopping malls, banks, educational institutes, etc. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, and it is the fourth spoken language in the world. However, it is still challenging to recognize Urdu handwritten characters owing to their cursive nature. Our paper presents a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) model to recognize Urdu handwritten alphabet recognition (UHAR) offline and online characters. Our research contributes an Urdu handwritten dataset (aka UHDS) to empower future works in this field. For offline systems, optical readers are used for extracting the alphabets, while diagonal-based… More >