Research Article

Urdu Handwritten Characters Data Visualization and Recognition Using Distributed Stochastic Neighborhood Embedding and Deep Network

Table 5

Comparison Analysis of our proposed approach for Urdu handwritten character classification with state-of-the-art approaches.

ReferenceApproachFeaturesAccuracy (%)

Accuracy rate of classification of the Urdu handwritten character
Ali et al. [28]Neural networkGeometrical strokes75–80%
Haider and Khan [29]BPNN, PNNGeometrical strokes66%
Shahzad et al. [30]Linear classifierStatistical features66%
Ahmed et al. [31]BLSTMPixel-based92–94%
Ko and Poruran [32]SVMTransfer-learning features82.30%
Ali et al. [33]SVMPixel-based features95.79%
Our approachCNNPixel- and geometrical-based96.04%

Accuracy rate of classification of Urdu handwritten numeral
Borse and Ansari [34]Daubechies waveletPixel-based92.05%
Razzak et al. [35]; Razzak et al. [36]HMM, fuzzy rulePixel-based97.45%, 97.09%
Sarkhel et al. [37]Multi-column multi-scale CNNNon-explicit feature based approach98.90%
Takruri et al. [38](MMCNN) fuzzy C-Means classifier ANNPixel-based features88.00%
Said et al. [39]ANNPixel-based features94.00%
Mowlaei et al. [40]ANNWavelet-based features97.34%
Our approachCNNPixel- and geometrical-based99.01%