Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 9, No 6: December 2020

Bangla handwritten character recognition using MobileNet V1 architecture

Tapotosh Ghosh (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
Md. Min-Ha-Zul Abedin (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
Shayer Mahmud Chowdhury (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
Zarin Tasnim (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
Tajbia Karim (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
S. M. Salim Reza (Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP))
Sabrina Saika (Bangladesh University of Professionals)
Mohammad Abu Yousuf (Jahangirnagar University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2020

Abstract

Handwritten character recognition is a very tough task in case of complex shaped alphabet set like Bangla script. As optical character recognition (OCR) has a huge application in mobile devices, model needs to be suitable for mobile applications. Many researches have been performed in this arena but none of them achieved satisfactory accuracy or could not detect more than 200 characters. MobileNet is a state of art (convolutional neural network) CNN architecture which is designed for mobile devices as it requires less computing power. In this paper, we used MobileNet for handwritten character recognition. It has achieved 96.46% accuracy in recognizing 231 classes (171 compound, 50 basic and 10 numerals), 96.17% accuracy in 171 compound character classes, 98.37% accuracy in 50 basic character classes and 99.56% accuracy in 10 numeral character classes. 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEI

Publisher

Subject

Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics (Buletin Teknik Elektro dan Informatika) ISSN: 2089-3191, e-ISSN: 2302-9285 is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the ...