Thai digit handwriting image classification with convolutional neural networks

Abstract

This paper aims to determine the efficiency in classifying and recognizing Thai digit handwritten using convolutional neural networks (CNN). We created a new dataset called the Thai digit dataset. The performance test was divided into two parts: the first part determines the exact number of epochs, and the second part examines the occurrence of overfits in the model with Keras library's EarlyStoping() function, processed through Cloud Computing with Google Colaboratory, and used a Python programming language. The main parameters for the model were a dropout of 0.75, mini-batch size of 128, the learning rate of 0.0001, and using an Adam optimizer. This study found the model's predictive accuracy was 96.88 and the loss was 0.1075. The results showed that using CNN in image classification and recognition. It has a high level of prediction efficiency. However, the parameters in the model must be adjusted accordingly.