Database of Handwritten Bangla Vowel
Modifiers
In Bangla, often a vowel in conjunction with a consonant or a cluster
of consonants form different shapes. A Bangla vowel other than % following a consonant may take a modified shape
and these are called vowel modifiers. Modified shapes of 10 vowels (other than
%) are
respectively
ç, ×
, Ý,
Ç , É , Ê , å , é
, å ç, å ì.
A large database of handwritten Bangla basic
characters and a scheme for its recognition has been recently reported (U.
Bhattacharya, S. K. Parui, M. Sridhar and F. Kimura, “Two-stage recognition of
handwritten Bangla alphanumeric characters using Neural classifiers”, Proc.
of IICAI-05, Pune, India, 1357-1376, 2005).
A similar database of Bangla
vowel modifiers has also been developed and reported (S. K. Parui, U.
Bhattacharya, A. K. Datta and B. Shaw, A Database of Handwritten Bangla Vowel
Modifiers and a Scheme for Their Detection and Recognition, Proc. Of National Workshop on Computer Vision
Graphics and Image Processing (WCVGIP-2006), Hyderabad (A.P.), India, 2006,
pp. pp. 204-209). A few samples are shown below.
Download
a sample set of 100 handwritten Bangla Vowel Modifier
NB: The whole database of
handwritten Bangla vowel modifiers may be obtained free of cost for academic
purposes by contacting through proper channel.
