Enhance Efficient of Support Vector Machine with CNN and PSO for solving Handwritten Digits Recognition

handwritten digit recognition is a crucial task in various fields such as postal mail sorting, bank check processing, and digitizing handwritten documents. This research aims to compare the effectiveness of using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for feature extraction combined with Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification, against the traditional method of using Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for feature extraction. Additionally, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is applied to optimize SVM parameters to further enhance model performance. The experiments are conducted on two datasets: the MNIST dataset and an individual handwriting dataset from 50 participants. The results indicate that the proposed method of using CNN for feature extraction and PSO-optimized SVM achieves superior accuracy compared to traditional DWT and DCT methods. Specifically, the proposed method achieved an accuracy of 99.05% on the MNIST dataset and 67.79% on the individual handwriting dataset, demonstrating its robustness and effectiveness in handwritten digit recognition.