WBSUBNdb_Isolated is a Bangla handwritten character dataset containing characters from 1751 offline handwritten isolated character data collection documents contributed by 302 writers. Each set includes 70 distinct characters of Bangla vowels, consonants, and modifiers. A total of 124179 Bangla handwritten isolated characters are present in the dataset out of which 17490 are Bangla numerals, 89199 are alphabets and 17490 are modifiers. Extract all the .rar files to get the total database. Refer to these links: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCCom.2014.7024729 and https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429277573-2 of the original articles for more details about the dataset and the benchmark results. For further details, the following papers can be studied. Anyone using this dataset for academic/research (purely non-profit, non-commercial) purposes should cite the following papers while reporting their results on this dataset.
Chayan Halder and Kaushik Roy, "Individuality of Isolated Bangla Characters", in proceedings: 2014 International Conference on Devices, Circuits and Communications (ICDCCom), Ranchi, India, 2014, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICDCCom.2014.7024729.
Payel Rakshit, Chayan Halder, Kaushik Roy, "An Approach toward Character Recognition of Bangla Handwritten Isolated Characters", in book: Document Processing Using Machine Learning, 1st Edition, pp. 15-28, Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York, 2019, eBook ISBN: 9780429277573, doi: 10.1201/9780429277573-2.
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