Imran Razzak

Dr. Imran Razzak


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Academic Career Length

11Years (2016-Present)

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25 November 2016 in SpringerPlus
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SNSaeeda Naz
Saeeda Naz
AUArif Iqbal Umar
Arif Iqbal Umar
RARiaz Ahmed
Riaz Ahmed
IRImran Razzak
Imran Razzak
SRSheikh Faisal Rashid
Sheikh Faisal Rashid
FSFaisal Shafait
Faisal Shafait
The recognition of Arabic script and its derivatives such as Urdu, Persian, Pashto etc. is a difficult task due to complexity of this script. Particularly, Urdu text recognition is more difficult due to its Nasta’liq writing style. Nasta’liq writing style inherits complex calligraphic nature, which presents major issues to recognition of Urdu text owing to diagonality in writing, high cursiveness, context sensitivity and overlapping of characters. Therefore, the work done for recognition of Arabic script cannot be directly applied to Urdu recognition. We present Multi-dimensional Long Short Term Memory (MDLSTM) Recurrent Neural Networks with an output layer designed for sequence labeling for recognition of printed Urdu text-lines written in the Nasta’liq writing style. Experiments show that MDLSTM attained a recognition accuracy of 98% for the unconstrained Urdu Nasta’liq printed text, which significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques.