AKSHARA VISION: A SWIN TRANSFORMER– BASED FRAMEWORK FOR ROBUST KANNADA HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION WITH PROGRESSIVE SEGMENTATION AND HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP FEEDBACK
Handwritten character recognition for Indic scripts presents fundamental challenges due to dense ligatures, diacritic interactions and high intra-class variation, combined with the absence of standardized large-scale datasets. Kannada script adds further complexity through its many conjunct forms and visually similar g...