PT Unknown AU Sounak Dey Anjan Dutta Josep Llados Alicia Fornes Umapada Pal TI Shallow Neural Network Model for Hand-drawn Symbol Recognition in Multi-Writer Scenario BT 12th IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition PY 2017 BP 31 EP 32 AB One of the main challenges in hand drawn symbol recognition is the variability among symbols because of the different writer styles. In this paper, we present and discuss some results recognizing hand-drawn symbols with a shallow neural network. A neural network model inspired from the LeNet architecture has been used to achieve state-of-the-art results withvery less training data, which is very unlikely to the data hungry deep neural network. From the results, it has become evident that the neural network architectures can efficiently describe and recognize hand drawn symbols from different writers and can model the inter author aberration ER