The recognition of the Arabic characters is a crucial task incomputer vision and Natural Language Processing fields. Some major complicationsin recognizing handwritten texts include distortion and patternvariabilities...The recognition of the Arabic characters is a crucial task incomputer vision and Natural Language Processing fields. Some major complicationsin recognizing handwritten texts include distortion and patternvariabilities. So, the feature extraction process is a significant task in NLPmodels. If the features are automatically selected, it might result in theunavailability of adequate data for accurately forecasting the character classes.But, many features usually create difficulties due to high dimensionality issues.Against this background, the current study develops a Sailfish Optimizer withDeep Transfer Learning-Enabled Arabic Handwriting Character Recognition(SFODTL-AHCR) model. The projected SFODTL-AHCR model primarilyfocuses on identifying the handwritten Arabic characters in the inputimage. The proposed SFODTL-AHCR model pre-processes the input imageby following the Histogram Equalization approach to attain this objective.The Inception with ResNet-v2 model examines the pre-processed image toproduce the feature vectors. The Deep Wavelet Neural Network (DWNN)model is utilized to recognize the handwritten Arabic characters. At last,the SFO algorithm is utilized for fine-tuning the parameters involved in theDWNNmodel to attain better performance. The performance of the proposedSFODTL-AHCR model was validated using a series of images. Extensivecomparative analyses were conducted. The proposed method achieved a maximum accuracy of 99.73%. The outcomes inferred the supremacy of theproposed SFODTL-AHCR model over other approaches.展开更多
Deep metric learning is one of the recommended methods for the challenge of supporting few/zero-shot learning by deep networks.It depends on building a Siamese architecture of two homogeneous Convolutional Neural Netw...Deep metric learning is one of the recommended methods for the challenge of supporting few/zero-shot learning by deep networks.It depends on building a Siamese architecture of two homogeneous Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)for learning a distance function that can map input data from the input space to the feature space.Instead of determining the class of each sample,the Siamese architecture deals with the existence of a few training samples by deciding if the samples share the same class identity or not.The traditional structure for the Siamese architecture was built by forming two CNNs from scratch with randomly initialized weights and trained by binary cross-entropy loss.Building two CNNs from scratch is a trial and error and time-consuming phase.In addition,training with binary crossentropy loss sometimes leads to poor margins.In this paper,a novel Siamese network is proposed and applied to few/zero-shot Handwritten Character Recognition(HCR)tasks.The novelties of the proposed network are in.1)Utilizing transfer learning and using the pre-trained AlexNet as a feature extractor in the Siamese architecture.Fine-tuning a pre-trained network is typically faster and easier than building from scratch.2)Training the Siamese architecture with contrastive loss instead of the binary cross-entropy.Contrastive loss helps the network to learn a nonlinear mapping function that enables it to map the extracted features in the vector space with an optimal way.The proposed network is evaluated on the challenging Chars74K datasets by conducting two experiments.One is for testing the proposed network in few-shot learning while the other is for testing it in zero-shot learning.The recognition accuracy of the proposed network reaches to 85.6%and 82%in few-and zero-shot learning respectively.In addition,a comparison between the performance of the proposed Siamese network and the traditional Siamese CNNs is conducted.The comparison results show that the proposed network achieves higher recognition results in less time.The propos展开更多
基金The authors extend their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Khalid University for funding this work through Large Groups Project under grant number(168/43)Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number(PNURSP2022R263),Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia+1 种基金The authors would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Umm Al-Qura University for supporting this work by Grant Code:(22UQU4340237DSR32)The author would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Shaqra University for supporting this work。
文摘The recognition of the Arabic characters is a crucial task incomputer vision and Natural Language Processing fields. Some major complicationsin recognizing handwritten texts include distortion and patternvariabilities. So, the feature extraction process is a significant task in NLPmodels. If the features are automatically selected, it might result in theunavailability of adequate data for accurately forecasting the character classes.But, many features usually create difficulties due to high dimensionality issues.Against this background, the current study develops a Sailfish Optimizer withDeep Transfer Learning-Enabled Arabic Handwriting Character Recognition(SFODTL-AHCR) model. The projected SFODTL-AHCR model primarilyfocuses on identifying the handwritten Arabic characters in the inputimage. The proposed SFODTL-AHCR model pre-processes the input imageby following the Histogram Equalization approach to attain this objective.The Inception with ResNet-v2 model examines the pre-processed image toproduce the feature vectors. The Deep Wavelet Neural Network (DWNN)model is utilized to recognize the handwritten Arabic characters. At last,the SFO algorithm is utilized for fine-tuning the parameters involved in theDWNNmodel to attain better performance. The performance of the proposedSFODTL-AHCR model was validated using a series of images. Extensivecomparative analyses were conducted. The proposed method achieved a maximum accuracy of 99.73%. The outcomes inferred the supremacy of theproposed SFODTL-AHCR model over other approaches.
文摘Deep metric learning is one of the recommended methods for the challenge of supporting few/zero-shot learning by deep networks.It depends on building a Siamese architecture of two homogeneous Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs)for learning a distance function that can map input data from the input space to the feature space.Instead of determining the class of each sample,the Siamese architecture deals with the existence of a few training samples by deciding if the samples share the same class identity or not.The traditional structure for the Siamese architecture was built by forming two CNNs from scratch with randomly initialized weights and trained by binary cross-entropy loss.Building two CNNs from scratch is a trial and error and time-consuming phase.In addition,training with binary crossentropy loss sometimes leads to poor margins.In this paper,a novel Siamese network is proposed and applied to few/zero-shot Handwritten Character Recognition(HCR)tasks.The novelties of the proposed network are in.1)Utilizing transfer learning and using the pre-trained AlexNet as a feature extractor in the Siamese architecture.Fine-tuning a pre-trained network is typically faster and easier than building from scratch.2)Training the Siamese architecture with contrastive loss instead of the binary cross-entropy.Contrastive loss helps the network to learn a nonlinear mapping function that enables it to map the extracted features in the vector space with an optimal way.The proposed network is evaluated on the challenging Chars74K datasets by conducting two experiments.One is for testing the proposed network in few-shot learning while the other is for testing it in zero-shot learning.The recognition accuracy of the proposed network reaches to 85.6%and 82%in few-and zero-shot learning respectively.In addition,a comparison between the performance of the proposed Siamese network and the traditional Siamese CNNs is conducted.The comparison results show that the proposed network achieves higher recognition results in less time.The propos
