An Evolutionary Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Recognize On-Line Arabic Handwriting

  • Authors:
  • Adel M. Alimi

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a system that recognizes on-line Arabic cursive handwriting. In this system, a genetic algorithm is used to select the best combination of characters recognized by a fuzzy neural network. The handwritten words used in this system are modelled by a theory of movement generation. Based on this motor theory, the features extracted from each character are the neuro-physiological and biomechanical parameters of the equation describing the curvilinear velocity of the script. The evolutionary approach proposed here permits the recognition of cursive handwriting with a segmentation procedure allowing overlapped strokes having neuro-physiological meaning.