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Department: Electrical Engineering (Electronic and communication) Department
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Publication Details
Staff Member NameDr.Mohammed Awny Ahmed
Publication NameDeep-learning ensemble for offline Arabic handwritten words recognition
Publication DescriptionIn recent years, ensemble learning methods show great effectiveness in improving model performance in several applications. Ensemble techniques rely on the incorporation of multiple different models together to get one optimal model. The primary assumption of ensemble techniques is that the cooperation among various classifiers will probably compensate for the mistakes of a single classifier and consequently, the ensemble's general output prediction would be better than the prediction of a single classifier. A key issue in the combination of classifiers is the diversity among its members. In this paper, we utilized model averaging as an ensemble learning technique for offline Arabic handwritten word recognition to train three residual networks (ResNet18) models. We demonstrate improvements by incorporating diversity in output prediction by using distinct techniques of optimization.
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