Rating Pre-writing Skills in Ecuadorian Children: A Preliminary Study Based on Transfer Learning, Hyperparameter Tuning, and Deep Learning

Adolfo Jara-Gavilanes, Romel Ávila-Faicán, Vladimir Robles-Bykbaev, Luis Serpa-Andrade

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Abstract

Pre-writing skills are a set of skills that have a great impact on children’s self-esteem and academic achievement. This is a big problem in the development of children. Educators and therapists don’t have much time to detect children lacking these skills in an early stage. To deal with this problem, we present a system that helps evaluate drawings of geometric shapes (circle, triangle, and square) drawn by children. To reach this goal, the system is divided into 4 phases: first the images are divided into 2 categories. Second, the dataset is loaded and a data augmentation is applied. Third, the following Convolutional Neural Networks are applied: CNN with hyperparameter tuning, VGG16, ResNet50 and InceptionV3. To feed these models, we used the “UPSWriting-Skills” dataset. Fourth, results are shown and the best models are selected to present their final hyperparameters. Finally, this system could be the base for new experiments with other Convolutional Neural Networks and other techniques to improve the accuracy of the system.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology and Systems - ICITS 2023
EditorsÁlvaro Rocha, Carlos Ferrás, Waldo Ibarra
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages505-515
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783031332579
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
EventInternational Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2023 - Cusco, Peru
Duration: 24 Apr 202326 Apr 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume691 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Information Technology and Systems, ICITS 2023
Country/TerritoryPeru
CityCusco
Period24/04/2326/04/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • CNN
  • Education
  • InceptionV3
  • Pre-writing skills
  • ResNet50
  • VGG16

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