DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK USING A NEW DATASET FOR BERBER LANGUAGE

Currently, Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) technology has become an interesting and immensely useful technology. It has been explored with highperformance in many languages. However, a few HCR systems are proposed for the Amazigh (Berber) language. Furthermore, the validation of any Amazighhandwritten recognition system remains a major challenge due to no availability of a robust Amazigh database. To address this problem, we first created two new datasets for Tifinagh and Amazigh Latin characters, by extending the well-known EMNIST database with the Amazigh alphabet. And then, we have proposed a handwritten character recognition system, which is based on a deep convolutional neural network to validate the created datasets. The proposed CNN has been trained and tested on our created datasets, and the experimental tests show that it achieves satisfactory results in terms of accuracy and recognition efficiency

Deep convolutional neural network using a new data set for berber language

Currently, handwritten character recognition (HCR) technology has become an interesting and immensely useful technology; it has been explored with impressive performance in many languages. However, few HCR systems have been proposed for the Amazigh (Berber) language. Furthermore, the validation of any Amazigh handwritten character-recognition system remains a major challenge due to the lack of availability of a robust Amazigh database. To address this problem, we first created two new data sets for Tifinagh and Amazigh Latin characters by extending the well-known EMNIST database with the Amazigh alphabet. Then, we proposed a handwritten character recognition system that is based on a deep convolutional neural network to validate the created data sets. The proposed convolutional neural network (CNN) has been trained and tested on our created data sets, the experimental tests showed that it achieves satisfactory results in terms of accuracy and recognition efficiency

Fast Extreme Learning Machine for Berber Handwritten Latin Script

This article deals with the problem of Berber handwritten character recognition using Extreme Learning Machine. This paradigm has gained significant attention in pattern recognition field thanks to its efficient learning speed and its high accuracy. In this paper, we have used a fast Extreme Learning Machine to recognize efficiently the Latin Berber characters. So, the proposed ELM has been trained over a Berber-MNIST dataset containing images of Amazigh alphabets. This algorithm learns much faster than traditional popular learning algorithms thanks to the use of JAX library which contains several functions to reduce the execution time of our solution. The simulation results show that the handwritten recognition system based on our developed extreme learning machine decreases computational cost and reduces the time required for the whole recognition process. Furthermore, the developed ELM achieves a high performance in terms of recognition accuracy