An Effective Handwritten Character Recognition Framework for South Indian Languages Using Adaptive Deep Learning Network.

The conversion of handwritten text into machine-readable format is termed as Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR). The differences in size, design, and alignment angle of the Telugu and Kannada alphabets have difficulty in recognizing handwritten documents in these languages across various real-world applications. Newly developed machine learning and deep learning models provide a significant improvements in the handwritten text recognition. These innovative methods offer promising enhancements in the accuracy and efficiency of character recognition within handwritten documents. However, effective recognition of digits is not an easy task due to people's varying writing styles in the input sample. To overcome such limitations, we explore a novel approach specifically designed to boost the performance of HCR in South Indian languages such as Kannada and Telugu. Initially, handwritten images are gathered using traditional data sources. These collected images are then given into the recognition phase. Here, an Adaptive Dilated convolution-based Deep Network (ADC-DeepNet) is developed for character identification purposes. In ADC-DeepNet, the ShuffleNetV2 blends with the Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) to produce accurate results. This fusion provides effective character recognition. Here, the Iterative Concept of Lyrebird Optimization (ICLO) is newly proposed to optimize the variables from ADC-DeepNet to improve the character recognition efficacy. The efficiency of the HCR system is evaluated among several recent techniques with some performance measures. Finally, the outcome showed that the accuracy of the proposed approach is 95.6, and other models like CNN, ResNet, Convolutional Autoencoder, and DeepNet gave the accuracy of 88.8, 91.5, 90.6, and 93.3, respectively. Thus, the findings of the experiment show that the developed ADC-DeepNet model can effectively identify the handwritten characters in south Indian languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]