Capstone research paper and Power Point Presentation for the Project: Handwriting Recognition. Python Language basics needed.

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION

Objective:

The main objective of this project is to recognize handwritten characters of English

alphabets from A to Z. For this task, we need to train a neural network model over a

dataset consists of images of alphabets.

Description:

The project will be based on the main topic of object character recognition. Here we

will use public datasets available online for example, A-Z Handwritten Alphabets

in .csv format available on Kaggle.

In this project we will recognize handwritten characters, i.e., English alphabets

from A-Z. This we are going to achieve by modelling a neural network that will have

to be trained over a dataset containing images of alphabets.

Summary of Software Tools:

We have a clear Idea of what we want to build regarding the tools there are still many

variables in-place. It’s confirmed that we would work with Python as our Main

Language and develop our Model in Google Colab.

Frameworks we are going to use are:

• Numpy

• Cv2

• Keras

• Tensorflow

• Matplotlib

• Pandas

Summary:

There are still a lot of unknowns surrounding the project. For our project, we want to

use an iterative development process. If our project is chosen, we would conduct

extensive study and be able to provide each variable a clear value.

We have an idea what type of data would be available to use we would mostly

be dealing with picture datasets.

Some of the links of the dataset are given as:

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/sachinpatel21/az-handwritten-alphabets-in-csv-

format

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ashishguptajiit/handwritten-az

For building this project, we have a tentative idea that out of 16 weeks we would

be spending 5 weeks on working with the data. After that 1-2 weeks would be utilize in

building our model and we would need 1-2 week to deploy our model to a GUI library

for presentation.

So, after this loose timeline we still have 4 weeks left for contingency if things

go south. In this time, we plan on completing any necessary documentation if required

and other things necessary for this project.