RT Journal Article
T1 A survey of handwritten character recognition with MNIST and EMNIST
A1 Baldominos Gómez, Alejandro
A1 Sáez Achaerandio, Yago
A1 Isasi, Pedro
AB This paper summarizes the top state-of-the-art contributions reported on the MNIST dataset for handwritten digit recognition. This dataset has been extensively used to validate novel techniques in computer vision, and in recent years, many authors have explored the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and other deep learning techniques over this dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first exhaustive and updated review of this dataset; there are some online rankings, but they are outdated, and most published papers survey only closely related works, omitting most of the literature. This paper makes a distinction between those works using some kind of data augmentation and works using the original dataset out-of-the-box. Also, works using CNNs are reported separately; as they are becoming the state-of-the-art approach for solving this problem. Nowadays, a significant amount of works have attained a test error rate smaller than 1% on this dataset; which is becoming non-challenging. By mid-2017, a new dataset was introduced: EMNIST, which involves both digits and letters, with a larger amount of data acquired from a database different than MNIST's. In this paper, EMNIST is explained and some results are surveyed.
PB MDPI
SN 2076-3417
YR 2019
FD 2019-08-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/38329
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/38329
LA eng
NO This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in the Era of Deep Learning.
DS e-Archivo
RD 17 jul. 2024