Pixel-level Reconstruction and Classification for Noisy Handwritten Bangla Characters

21 Jun 2018  ·  Manohar Karki, Qun Liu, Robert DiBiano, Saikat Basu, Supratik Mukhopadhyay ·

Classification techniques for images of handwritten characters are susceptible to noise. Quadtrees can be an efficient representation for learning from sparse features. In this paper, we improve the effectiveness of probabilistic quadtrees by using a pixel level classifier to extract the character pixels and remove noise from handwritten character images. The pixel level denoiser (a deep belief network) uses the map responses obtained from a pretrained CNN as features for reconstructing the characters eliminating noise. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by reconstructing and classifying a noisy version of handwritten Bangla Numeral and Basic Character datasets.

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Datasets


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Document Image Classification n-MNIST Pixel-level RC Accuracy 97.62 # 1
Document Image Classification Noisy Bangla Numeral Pixel-level RC Accuracy 95.46 # 2
Image Classification Noisy MNIST (AWGN) Pixel-level RC Accuracy 97.62 # 2
Image Classification Noisy MNIST (Contrast) Pixel-level RC Accuracy 95.04 # 2
Image Classification Noisy MNIST (Motion) Pixel-level RC Accuracy 97.20 # 2

Results from Other Papers


Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Rank Source Paper Compare
Document Image Classification Noisy Bangla Characters Pixel-level RC Accuracy 77.22 # 2

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