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Urdu Nastaliq recognition using convolutional-recursive deep learning

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Saeeda Naz
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Arif Iqbal Umar
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Riaz Ahmad
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Imran Siddiqi
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Saad Bin Ahmed
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Imran Razzak *
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Faisal Shafait
DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2017.02.081delete
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Recent developments in recognition of cursive scripts rely on implicit feature extraction methods that provide better results as compared to traditional hand-crafted feature extraction approaches. We present a hybrid approach based on explicit feature extraction by combining convolutional and recursive neural networks for feature learning and classification of cursive Urdu Nastaliq script. The first layer extracts low-level translational invariant features using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) which are then forwarded to Multi-dimensional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Networks (MDLSTM) for contextual feature extraction and learning. Experiments are carried out on the publicly available Urdu Printed Text-line Image (UPTI) dataset using the proposed hierarchical combination of CNN and MDLSTM. A recognition rate of up to 98.12% for 44-classes is achieved outperforming the state-of-the-art results on the UPTI dataset. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords:
RNN
CNN
Urdu OCR
BLSTM
MDLSTM
CTC
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