Two Schemas for Online Character Recognition of Telugu Script Based on Support Vector Machines

  • Authors:
  • J. Rajkumar;K. Mariraja;K. Kanakapriya;S. Nishanthini;V. S. Chakravarthy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICFHR '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present two schemas for online recognition of Telugu characters, involving elaborate multi-classifier architectures. Considering the three-tier vertical organization of a typical Telugu character, we divide the stroke set into 4 subclasses primarily based on their vertical position. Stroke level recognition is based on a bank of Support Vector Machines (SVMs), with a separate SVM trained on each of these classes. Character recognition for Schema 1 is based on a Ternary Search Tree (TST), while for Schema 2 it is based on a SVM. The two schemas yielded overall stroke recognition performances of 89.59% and 96.69% respectively surpassing some of the recent online recognition performance results related to Telugu script reported in literature. The schemas yield character-level recognition performances of 90.55% and 96.42% respectively.