An Intuitive Explanation of Connectionist Temporal Classification

Text recognition with the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss and decoding operation

Harald Scheidl
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 10, 2018

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If you want a computer to recognize text, neural networks (NN) are a good choice as they outperform all other approaches at the moment. The NN for such use-cases usually consists of…

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