Arabic Handwritten Text for Person Biometric Identification: A Deep Learning Approach
It addresses identity verification for Arabic speakers, but is incremental as it applies existing models to a specific domain.
This study tackled person biometric identification using Arabic handwritten text by comparing deep learning models, finding that EfficientNetB7 achieved test accuracies of 98.57%, 99.15%, and 99.79% on three datasets.
This study thoroughly investigates how well deep learning models can recognize Arabic handwritten text for person biometric identification. It compares three advanced architectures -- ResNet50, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNetB7 -- using three widely recognized datasets: AHAWP, Khatt, and LAMIS-MSHD. Results show that EfficientNetB7 outperforms the others, achieving test accuracies of 98.57\%, 99.15\%, and 99.79\% on AHAWP, Khatt, and LAMIS-MSHD datasets, respectively. EfficientNetB7's exceptional performance is credited to its innovative techniques, including compound scaling, depth-wise separable convolutions, and squeeze-and-excitation blocks. These features allow the model to extract more abstract and distinctive features from handwritten text images. The study's findings hold significant implications for enhancing identity verification and authentication systems, highlighting the potential of deep learning in Arabic handwritten text recognition for person biometric identification.