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International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
Published in: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) 3/2020

28-07-2020 | Original Paper

A benchmark for unconstrained online handwritten Uyghur word recognition

Authors: Wujiahemaiti Simayi, Mayire Ibrahim, Xu-Yao Zhang, Cheng-Lin Liu, Askar Hamdulla

Published in: International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) | Issue 3/2020

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Abstract

Despite some interesting results from different research groups, a public database for Uyghur online handwriting recognition and a baseline study are not yet available for comparison purpose. In order to fill this void, we present a database of Uyghur online handwritten words and carry out the first benchmark experiments using it. This database contains 125,020 samples of 2030 words collected from 393 writers. According to Uyghur lexicon characteristics, two out-of-vocabulary datasets are especially provided for evaluation. We carry out some unconstrained handwritten word recognition experiments on the database using recurrent neural networks as base model. Recognition results are acquired using connectionist temporal classification without lexicon search and external language model. Concatenated and averaged bidirectional recurrent layers are compared for better generalization. Based on Uyghur unicode representation, we are interested in comparing the models using different alphabets, based both on character types and character forms. To improve generalization, we propose 1D convolutional model which implements 1D convolutional layers for sequence feature extraction. In our experiments, the proposed 1D convolutional model and its variations surpassed the base recurrent layered model on the out-of-vocabulary words by clear margin. 83.23% CAR (character accurate rate) was resulted when out-of-vocabulary samples are used for testing. The highest recognition rate is as high as 94.95% CAR when the test set shares the same lexicon to the training set. The experiments in this paper can be the baseline references for the future study using this database.
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Metadata
Title
A benchmark for unconstrained online handwritten Uyghur word recognition
Authors
Wujiahemaiti Simayi
Mayire Ibrahim
Xu-Yao Zhang
Cheng-Lin Liu
Askar Hamdulla
Publication date
28-07-2020
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) / Issue 3/2020
Print ISSN: 1433-2833
Electronic ISSN: 1433-2825
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10032-020-00354-0

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