AI Learns to Recognize Bengali Handwritten Digits: Bengali.AI Computer Vision Challenge 2018
This addresses the problem of limited resources for Bengali-speaking communities in AI, though it is incremental as it focuses on creating a dataset and competition rather than novel methods.
The paper tackled the lack of a public database and competitive AI challenges for Bengali handwritten digits by organizing the Bengali.AI Computer Vision Challenge, which attracted local and international teams to develop recognition models.
Solving problems with Artificial intelligence in a competitive manner has long been absent in Bangladesh and Bengali-speaking community. On the other hand, there has not been a well structured database for Bengali Handwritten digits for mass public use. To bring out the best minds working in machine learning and use their expertise to create a model which can easily recognize Bengali Handwritten digits, we organized Bengali.AI Computer Vision Challenge.The challenge saw both local and international teams participating with unprecedented efforts.