Deep Sparse Auto-Encoder Features Learning for Arabic Text Recognition

One of the most recent challenging issues of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence is Arabic text recognition. This research topic is still a pervasive and unaddressed research field, because of several factors. Complications arise due to the cursive nature of the Arabic writing, character similarities, unlimited vocabulary, use of multi-size and mixed-fonts, etc. To handle these challenges, an automatic Arabic text recognition requires building a robust system by computing discriminative features and applying a rigorous classifier together to achieve an improved performance. In this work, we introduce a new deep learning based system that recognizes Arabic text contained in images. We propose a novel hybrid network, combining a Bag-of-Feature (BoF) framework for feature extraction based on a deep Sparse Auto-Encoder (SAE), and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), for sequence recognition. Our proposed system, termed BoF-deep SAE-HMM, is tested on four datasets, namely the printed Arabic line images Printed KHATT (P-KHATT), the benchmark printed word images Arabic Printed Text Image (APTI), the benchmark handwritten Arabic word images IFN/ENIT, and the benchmark handwritten digits images Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST)

A review of Arabic text recognition dataset

Building a robust Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for languages, such as Arabic with cursive scripts, has always been challenging. These challenges increase if the text contains diacritics of different sizes for characters and words. Apart from the complexity of the used font, these challenges must be addressed in recognizing the text of the Holy Quran. To solve these challenges, the OCR system would have to undergo different phases. Each problem would have to be addressed using different approaches, thus, researchers are studying these challenges and proposing various solutions. This has motivate this study to review Arabic OCR dataset because the dataset plays a major role in determining the nature of the OCR systems. State-of-the-art approaches in segmentation and recognition are discovered with the implementation of Recurrent Neural Networks (Long Short-Term Memory-LSTM and Gated Recurrent Unit-GRU) with the use of the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC). This also includes deep learning model and implementation of GRU in the Arabic domain. This paper has contribute in profiling the Arabic text recognition dataset thus determining the nature of OCR system developed and has identified research direction in building Arabic text recognition dataset

Large-scale document labeling using supervised sequence embedding

A critical component in computational treatment of an automated document labeling is the choice of an appropriate representation. Proper representation captures specific phenomena of interest in data while transforming it to a format appropriate for a classifier. For a text document, a popular choice is the bag-of-words (BoW) representation that encodes presence of unique words with non-zero weights such as TF-IDF. Extending this model to long, overlapping phrases (n-grams) results in exponential explosion in the dimensionality of the representation. In this work, we develop a model that encodes long phrases in a low-dimensional latent space with a cumulative function of individual words in each phrase. In contrast to BoW, the parameter space of the proposed model grows linearly with the length of the phrase. The proposed model requires only vector additions and multiplications with scalars to compute the latent representation of phrases, which makes it applicable to large-scale text labeling problems. Several sentiment classification and binary topic categorization problems will be used to empirically evaluate the proposed representation. The same model can also encode relative spatial distribution of elements in higher-dimensional sequences. In order to verify this claim, the proposed model will be evaluated on a large-scale image classification dataset, where images are transformed into two-dimensional sequences of quantized image descriptors.Ph.D., Computer Science -- Drexel University, 201

Advances in Image Processing, Analysis and Recognition Technology

For many decades, researchers have been trying to make computers’ analysis of images as effective as the system of human vision is. For this purpose, many algorithms and systems have previously been created. The whole process covers various stages, including image processing, representation and recognition. The results of this work can be applied to many computer-assisted areas of everyday life. They improve particular activities and provide handy tools, which are sometimes only for entertainment, but quite often, they significantly increase our safety. In fact, the practical implementation of image processing algorithms is particularly wide. Moreover, the rapid growth of computational complexity and computer efficiency has allowed for the development of more sophisticated and effective algorithms and tools. Although significant progress has been made so far, many issues still remain, resulting in the need for the development of novel approaches