Multiple classifier methods for offline handwritten text line recognition

  • Authors:
  • Roman Bertolami;Horst Bunke

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • MCS'07 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Multiple classifier systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper investigates the use of multiple classifier methods for offline handwritten text line recognition. To obtain ensembles of recognisers we implement a random feature subspace method. The word sequences returned by the individual ensemble members are first aligned. Then the final word sequence is produced. For this purpose we use a voting method and two novel statistical combination methods. The conducted experiments show that the proposed multiple classifier methods have the potential to improve the recognition accuracy of single recognisers.