BanglaNet: Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition using Ensembling of Convolutional Neural Network

Handwritten character recognition is a crucial task because of its abundant applications. The recognition task of Bangla handwritten characters is especially challenging because of the cursive nature of Bangla characters and the presence of compound characters with more than one way of writing. In this paper, a classification model based on the ensembling of several Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), namely, BanglaNet is proposed to classify Bangla basic characters, compound characters, numerals, and modifiers. Three different models based on the idea …

applications character recognition characters classification classification model convolutional neural network cs.cv cs.lg nature network neural network paper recognition writing