Abdelwahed Motwakel^1,*, Badriyya B. Al-onazi², Jaber S. Alzahrani³, Ayman Yafoz⁴, Mahmoud Othman⁵, Abu Sarwar Zamani¹, Ishfaq Yaseen¹, Amgad Atta Abdelmageed¹

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.48, No.5, pp. 1387-1403, 2024, DOI:10.32604/csse.2023.033902 - 13 September 2024

Abstract Handwritten character recognition becomes one of the challenging research matters. More studies were presented for recognizing letters of various languages. The availability of Arabic handwritten characters databases was confined. Almost a quarter of a billion people worldwide write and speak Arabic. More historical books and files indicate a vital data set for many Arab nations written in Arabic. Recently, Arabic handwritten character recognition (AHCR) has grabbed the attention and has become a difficult topic for pattern recognition and computer vision (CV). Therefore, this study develops fireworks optimization with the deep learning-based AHCR (FWODL-AHCR) technique. The… More >

Rudraneel Dutta^*, Shreya Mohanty

Journal on Artificial Intelligence, Vol.6, pp. 177-192, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jai.2024.050706 - 19 July 2024

Abstract Traditionally, exam preparation involves manually analyzing past question papers to identify and prioritize key topics. This research proposes a data-driven solution to automate this process using techniques like Document Layout Segmentation, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for topic modelling. This study aims to develop a system that utilizes machine learning and topic modelling to identify and rank key topics from historical exam papers, aiding students in efficient exam preparation. The research addresses the difficulty in exam preparation due to the manual and labour-intensive process of analyzing past exam papers to identify… More >

Adéla Hamplová^1,*, Alexey Lyavdansky^2,*, Tomáš Novák¹, Ondřej Svojše¹, David Franc¹, Arnošt Veselý¹

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.140, No.3, pp. 2869-2889, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.050791 - 08 July 2024

Abstract This study presents a single-class and multi-class instance segmentation approach applied to ancient Palmyrene inscriptions, employing two state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms, namely YOLOv8 and Roboflow 3.0. The goal is to contribute to the preservation and understanding of historical texts, showcasing the potential of modern deep learning methods in archaeological research. Our research culminates in several key findings and scientific contributions. We comprehensively compare the performance of YOLOv8 and Roboflow 3.0 in the context of Palmyrene character segmentation—this comparative analysis mainly focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of each algorithm in this context. We also created… More >

Salah Alghyaline^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.3, pp. 4905-4924, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.052016 - 20 June 2024

Abstract Handwritten character recognition is considered challenging compared with machine-printed characters due to the different human writing styles. Arabic is morphologically rich, and its characters have a high similarity. The Arabic language includes 28 characters. Each character has up to four shapes according to its location in the word (at the beginning, middle, end, and isolated). This paper proposed 12 CNN architectures for recognizing handwritten Arabic characters. The proposed architectures were derived from the popular CNN architectures, such as VGG, ResNet, and Inception, to make them applicable to recognizing character-size images. The experimental results on three More >

Fares Alharbi¹, Reem Alshahrani², Mohammed Zakariah^3,*, Amjad Aldweesh¹, Abdulrahman Abdullah Alghamdi¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.77, No.3, pp. 3697-3722, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.040086 - 26 December 2023

Abstract Privacy and trust are significant issues in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Data security is critical in ITS systems since sensitive user data is communicated to another user over the internet through wireless devices and routes such as radio channels, optical fiber, and blockchain technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of connected, interconnected gadgets. Privacy issues occasionally arise due to the amount of data generated. However, they have been primarily addressed by blockchain and smart contract technology. While there are still security issues with smart contracts, primarily due to the complexity of writing… More >

Arfa Siddiqu, Abdul Basit^*, Waheed Noor, Muhammad Asfandyar Khan, M. Saeed H. Kakar, Azam Khan

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 875-885, 2023, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2023.036426 - 29 April 2023

Abstract The optical character recognition for the right to left and cursive languages such as Arabic is challenging and received little attention from researchers in the past compared to the other Latin languages. Moreover, the absence of a standard publicly available dataset for several low-resource languages, including the Pashto language remained a hurdle in the advancement of language processing. Realizing that, a clean dataset is the fundamental and core requirement of character recognition, this research begins with dataset generation and aims at a system capable of complete language understanding. Keeping in view the complete and full… More >

Xun Zhang¹, Wanrong Bai¹, Haoyang Cui^2,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.120, No.3, pp. 665-679, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.020342 - 03 January 2023

Abstract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to a technology that uses image processing technology and character recognition algorithms to identify characters on an image. This paper is a deep study on the recognition effect of OCR based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, in which the different AI algorithms for OCR analysis are classified and reviewed. Firstly, the mechanisms and characteristics of artificial neural network-based OCR are summarized. Secondly, this paper explores machine learning-based OCR, and draws the conclusion that the algorithms available for this form of OCR are still in their infancy, with low generalization and More >

Moeen Tayyab¹, Ayyaz Hussain^2,*, Usama Mir³, M. Aqeel Iqbal⁴, Muhammad Haneef⁵

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 6177-6193, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.034669 - 28 December 2022

Abstract The news ticker is a common feature of many different news networks that display headlines and other information. News ticker recognition applications are highly valuable in e-business and news surveillance for media regulatory authorities. In this paper, we focus on the automatic Arabic Ticker Recognition system for the Al-Ekhbariya news channel. The primary emphasis of this research is on ticker recognition methods and storage schemes. To that end, the research is aimed at character-wise explicit segmentation using a semantic segmentation technique and words identification method. The proposed learning architecture considers the grouping of homogeneous-shaped classes. More >

Mohammed Maray¹, Badriyya B. Al-onazi², Jaber S. Alzahrani³, Saeed Masoud Alshahrani^4,*, Najm Alotaibi⁵, Sana Alazwari⁶, Mahmoud Othman⁷, Manar Ahmed Hamza⁸

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.74, No.3, pp. 5467-5482, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.033534 - 28 December 2022

Abstract The recognition of the Arabic characters is a crucial task in computer vision and Natural Language Processing fields. Some major complications in recognizing handwritten texts include distortion and pattern variabilities. So, the feature extraction process is a significant task in NLP models. If the features are automatically selected, it might result in the unavailability of adequate data for accurately forecasting the character classes. But, many features usually create difficulties due to high dimensionality issues. Against this background, the current study develops a Sailfish Optimizer with Deep Transfer Learning-Enabled Arabic Handwriting Character Recognition (SFODTL-AHCR) model. The… More >

Salah Alghyaline^*

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.135, No.3, pp. 1825-1861, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.024555 - 23 November 2022

Abstract This study aims to review the latest contributions in Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during the last decade, which helps interested researchers know the existing techniques and extend or adapt them accordingly. The study describes the characteristics of the Arabic language, different types of OCR systems, different stages of the Arabic OCR system, the researcher’s contributions in each step, and the evaluation metrics for OCR. The study reviews the existing datasets for the Arabic OCR and their characteristics. Additionally, this study implemented some preprocessing and segmentation stages of Arabic OCR. The study compares the performance… More >