A shape representation scheme for hand-drawn symbol recognition

  • Authors:
  • Pulabaigari Viswanath;T. Gokaramaiah;Gouripeddi V. Prabhakar Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • Departments of CSE and IT, Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering & Technology, Nandyal, A.P., India;Departments of CSE and IT, Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering & Technology, Nandyal, A.P., India;Departments of CSE and IT, Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of Engineering & Technology, Nandyal, A.P., India

  • Venue:
  • MIWAI'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multi-Disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Pen based inputs are natural for human beings. A hand-drawn shape (symbol) can be used for various purposes, like, a command gesture, an input for authentication purpose, etc. Shape of a symbol is invariant to scale, translation, mirror-reflection and rotation of the symbol. Moments, like Zernike moments are often used to represent a symbol. Descriptors based on Zernike moments are rotation invariant, but since they are neither translation nor scale invariant, a normalization step as pre-processing is required. Apart from this, higher order Zernike moments are error prone. The present paper, proposes to use probability distributions of some local moments of lower order, as a representation scheme. Theoretically it is shown to possess all invariance properties. Experimentally, using the k-nearest neighbor classifier (with Kullback-Leibler distance), it is shown to perform better than Zernike moments based representation scheme.