Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition: Comparative Performance of Advanced Pre-trained CNN Models
摘要
This study discusses the suitability of several pre-trained CNN models for Arabic handwritten character recognition. In particular, this work compares six well-known models: VGG16, VGG19, ResNet50, InceptionV3, MobileNetV2, and MobileNetV3 Large and Small. Accuracy, loss, and training time assessment metrics of the models are evaluated using the Arabic Handwritten Character Dataset (AHCD). This work explores the ability of these models to achieve high classification accuracy using the transfer learning and fine-tuning processes. The results demonstrate significant performance differences, highlighting their advantages and limitations for Arabic character recognition.