Neuronové sítě typu Transformer pro přepis ručně psaného textu

This Master's thesis aims to design a system using the transformer neural network and perform experiments with this proposed model in the task of handwriting text recognition. In this thesis, a multilingual dataset with predominate Czech texts is used. The experiments examine the influence of basic hyperparameters, such as network size, convolutional encoder type, and the use of different text tokenizers. In this work, I also use text corpora of the Czech language which is used to train the network decoder. Furthermore, I experiment with the usage of additional textual information during the decoding process. This information comes from the previous line of the transcribed image. The transformer achieves a character recognition error rate of 3.41 % on the test data set which is 0.16 % worse performance than the recurrent neural network achieves. To compare this model with other transformer-based models from available articles, the network was trained on the IAM dataset, where it achieved an error of 2.48 % and therefore outperformed other models in handwriting text recognition task.

text recognition, handwriting text, neural networks, attention, transformer, text corpus