Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition

Arabic and English handwritten digit recognition is a challenging problem because the writing style differs from one writer to another. In middle east countries, many official forms are prepared to be written using either Arabic or English languages. However, some people fill the form using both...

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Main Author: Saleh Al-Wajih, Ebrahim Qasem
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description Arabic and English handwritten digit recognition is a challenging problem because the writing style differs from one writer to another. In middle east countries, many official forms are prepared to be written using either Arabic or English languages. However, some people fill the form using both languages (Arabic and English), which adds more challenges to recognize digits. Nowadays, deep learning approaches are considered the hot trend of new research, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN is used in many applications and modified to produce other models such as Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (LBCNN). LBCNN was created by fusing Local Binary Pattern (LBP) with CNN by reformulating LBP as a convolution layer called Local Binary Convolution (LBC). However, LBCNN suffers from the random assign 1, 0, or -1 to LBC weights, making LBCNN less robust. Nevertheless, using another LBP-based technique such as Center-Symmetric Local Binary Patterns (CS-LBP) can address such issues. In this thesis, a new model based on CS-LBP is proposed called Center-Symmetric Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CS-LBCNN) that addresses the issues of LBCNN. Further, an enhanced version of CS-LBCNN is proposed called Threshold Center-Symmetric Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (TCSLBCNN) that addresses another issue related to the zero-thresholding function. The proposed models are compared against state-of-the-art techniques that used the MNIST and MADBase as a bilingual dataset. The proposed TCS-LBCNN model proves its ability to give a more accurate and significant classification rate than the existing LBCNN models. For the bilingual dataset, the TCS-LBCNN enhances the performance of LBCNN and CS-LBCNN, in terms of accuracy, by 0.15% and 0.03%, respectively. In addition, the comparison shows that the accuracy acquired by TCS-LBCNN is the second-highest using the MNIST and MADBase datasets.
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spelling uthm.eprints-84122023-02-26T07:09:06Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8412/ Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition Saleh Al-Wajih, Ebrahim Qasem QA76 Computer software Arabic and English handwritten digit recognition is a challenging problem because the writing style differs from one writer to another. In middle east countries, many official forms are prepared to be written using either Arabic or English languages. However, some people fill the form using both languages (Arabic and English), which adds more challenges to recognize digits. Nowadays, deep learning approaches are considered the hot trend of new research, including Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNN is used in many applications and modified to produce other models such as Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (LBCNN). LBCNN was created by fusing Local Binary Pattern (LBP) with CNN by reformulating LBP as a convolution layer called Local Binary Convolution (LBC). However, LBCNN suffers from the random assign 1, 0, or -1 to LBC weights, making LBCNN less robust. Nevertheless, using another LBP-based technique such as Center-Symmetric Local Binary Patterns (CS-LBP) can address such issues. In this thesis, a new model based on CS-LBP is proposed called Center-Symmetric Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (CS-LBCNN) that addresses the issues of LBCNN. Further, an enhanced version of CS-LBCNN is proposed called Threshold Center-Symmetric Local Binary Convolutional Neural Networks (TCSLBCNN) that addresses another issue related to the zero-thresholding function. The proposed models are compared against state-of-the-art techniques that used the MNIST and MADBase as a bilingual dataset. The proposed TCS-LBCNN model proves its ability to give a more accurate and significant classification rate than the existing LBCNN models. For the bilingual dataset, the TCS-LBCNN enhances the performance of LBCNN and CS-LBCNN, in terms of accuracy, by 0.15% and 0.03%, respectively. In addition, the comparison shows that the accuracy acquired by TCS-LBCNN is the second-highest using the MNIST and MADBase datasets. 2022-03 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8412/1/24p%20EBRAHIM%20QASEM%20SALEH%20AL-WAJIH.pdf text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8412/2/EBRAHIM%20QASEM%20SALEH%20AL-WAJIH%20COPYRIGHT%20DECLARATION.pdf text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/8412/3/EBRAHIM%20QASEM%20SALEH%20AL-WAJIH%20WATERMARK.pdf Saleh Al-Wajih, Ebrahim Qasem (2022) Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition. Doctoral thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia.
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Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title_full Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title_fullStr Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title_full_unstemmed Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title_short Threshold center-symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
title_sort threshold center symmetric local binary convolutional neural networks for bilingual handwritten digit recognition
topic QA76 Computer software
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