Handwritten Greek character recognition with learning vector quantization
KES'07/WIRN'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference, KES 2007 and XVII Italian workshop on neural networks conference on Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
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This paper deals with a simple and effective set of features for (handprinted) character representation in automatic reading systems. These features, computed within regularly placed windows spanning the character bitmap, consist of a combination of average pixel density and measures of local alignment along some directions. Patterns from different databases call be accommodated by choosing a variable window size. These features used in conjunction with a neural classifier (MLP) yielded a very high accuracy on several handprinted character databases, including NIST's ones. Moreover they are easily implementable in VLSI, with throughputs as high as 250,000 characters/sec.