Chinese Handwriting Recognition – HSK1

A CNN trained on the HWDB1.0 dataset to recognise 178 Chinese characters.

Model details

Item	Value
Input	40×40 grayscale image
Classes	178 Chinese characters + Unknown
Framework	Keras / TensorFlow
Confidence threshold	0.5 (below → Unknown)

Files

File	Description
`chinese_hsk1_model.keras`	Trained Keras model
`label_map.json`	Index-to-character mapping
`training_curves.png`	Accuracy & loss curves

Quick start

import numpy as np, json
from tensorflow import keras

model     = keras.models.load_model('chinese_hsk1_model.keras')
label_map = json.load(open('label_map.json', encoding='utf-8'))

THRESHOLD = 0.5

def predict(img_40x40_gray):
    x     = img_40x40_gray.astype('float32') / 255.0
    x     = x.reshape(1, 40, 40, 1)
    probs = model.predict(x)[0]
    conf  = probs.max()
    if conf < THRESHOLD:
        return 'Unknown', conf
    return label_map[str(probs.argmax())], conf

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