Empirical Evaluation of Character Classification Schemes

  • Authors:
  • Neeba N.V;C. V. Jawahar

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICAPR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Seventh International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper, we empirically study the performance of a set of pattern classification schemes for character classification problems. We argue that with a rich feature space, this class of problems can be solved with reasonable success using a set of statistical feature extraction schemes. Experimental validation is done on a data set (of more than 500000 characters) collected and annotated from books printed primarily in Malayalam. Scope of this study include (a) applicability of a spectrum of classifiers and features (b) scalability of classifiers (c) sensitivity of features to degradation (d) generalization across fonts and (e) applicability across scripts.