Table 15 Comparison of proposed work with literary works in Localization and Recognition accuracy

From: Leveraging digital acquisition and DPB based SignaryNet for localization and recognition of heritage inscription palaeography

Works

Method

Dataset

Localization accuracy (%)

Recognition accuracy (%)

Character recognition, documentation system to decode Inscription5

2D CNN + Tesseract

Tamil temple inscriptions

70.00

77.7

Palm leaf inscription classification7

Contour-based convex hull + MABN GLCM

Palm leaf inscription—Tamil

87.5

85.3

Multilingual character segmentation8

Projection profiles, graph distance + KNN

Proprietary Devanagari, CPAR dataset

97.26

87.42

PNN and deep learning character recognition9

ROI CCA + DCNN

Tulu palm leaf characters

64.51

88.07

Handwritten character recognition10

Vertical projection method + CNN

1000 random words

95.6

85.74

Structural representation-based handwritten character recognition11

Z ordering method + SVM

HP India 2013 laboratory dataset

88.30

90.30

Bounding box method-based accurate vehicle number detection12

Sobel Edge Detector, median filtering, dilation, erosion, flood fill, bound boxes

25 License plates in Indian style (black letters on white and yellow backgrounds)

90.6

93.00

Kannada handwritten scripts16

LBP features + KNN

Kannada Vijayanagara, Wadiyar, Hoysala handwritten scripts

90.91

93.9

Optical character segmentation for touching characters17

Horver method + DLA

Tamil palm leaf manuscripts

90.63

92.43

Character-level street view text spotting22

MSRD + ResNet50

ICDAR 2013, ICDAR 2015, MSRA TD 500, SCUT, RCTW, ReCTS, Shopsign

92.98

92.53

Telugu printed handwritten documents using iterative split analysis26

Iterative split + Projections

Handwritten Telugu (2400 chars)

95.37

91.17

Stroke extraction for offline handwritten mathematical expression28

Noise reduction, stroke direction, stroke order normalization, stroke tracing, double-traced stroke restoration, Over segmentation technique

CROHME 2016 dataset

85.00

65.65

Signary localization and recognition (Proposed)

DPB-Dynamic Profiling Bound Approach + SignaryNet

11th century Brihadisvara Tamil inscriptions

98.25

96.81