A fuzzy logic system for the detection and recognition of handwritten street numbers

  • Authors:
  • P. Gader;J. M. Keller;J. Cai

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Missouri Univ., Columbia, MO;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Fuzzy logic is applied to the problem of locating and reading street numbers in digital images of handwritten mail. A fuzzy rule-based system is defined that uses uncertain information provided by image processing and neural network-based character recognition modules to generate multiple hypotheses with associated confidence values for the location of the street number in an image of a handwritten address. The results of a blind test of the resultant system are presented to demonstrate the value of this new approach. The results are compared to those obtained using a neural network trained with backpropagation. The fuzzy logic system achieved higher performance rates