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  • Article Code : FIRAT-AKADEMI-9123-4420
  • Article Type : Araştırma Makalesi
  • Publication Number : 1A0433
  • Page Number : 71-87
  • Doi : 10.12739/NWSA.2019.14.2.1A0433
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  • Year : 2019
  • Volume : 14
  • Issue : 2
  • Number of Articles Published : 3
  • Published Date : 1.04.2019

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Engineering Sciences

Serial Number : 1A
ISSN No. : 1308-7231
Release Interval (in a Year) : 4 Issues

HANDWRITTEN AMHARIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS

Fetulhak ABDURAHMAN1

Amharic language is an official language of the federal government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Accordingly, there is a bulk of handwritten Amharic documents available in libraries, information centres, museums, and offices. Digitization of these documents enables to harness already available language technologies to local information needs and developments. Converting these documents will have a lot of advantages including (i) to preserve and transfer history of the country (ii) to save storage space (ii) proper handling of documents (iv) enhance retrieval of information through internet and other applications. Handwritten Amharic character recognition system becomes a challenging task due to inconsistency of a writer, variability in writing styles of different writers, relatively large number of characters of the script, high interclass similarity, structural complexity and degradation of documents due to different reasons. In order to recognize handwritten Amharic character a novel method based on deep neural networks is used which has recently shown exceptional performance in various pattern recognition and machine learning applications, but has not been endeavoured for Ethiopic script. The Convolutional neural network model is evaluated for its performance using our database that contains 132,500 datasets of handwritten Amharic characters.

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Amharic, Handwritten, Character, Convolutional neural network, Recognition ,

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Fetulhak ABDURAHMAN (1) (Corresponding Author)

Jimma University
afetulhak@yahoo.com | 0000-0002-5670-0319

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[1] Sarkhel, R., Das, N., Saha, A.K., and Nasipuri, M., (2016). A Multi-objective Approach Towards Cost Effective Isolated handwritten Bangla character and Digit Recognition, Pattern Recognition, 58:172-189.