Combining model-based and discriminative classifiers: application to handwritten character recognition

  • Authors:
  • L. Prevost;C. Michel-Sendis;A. Moises;L. Oudot;M. Milgram

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Handwriting recognition is such a complexclassification problem that it is quite usual now to makeco-operate several classification methods at the pre-processingstage or at the classification stage. In thispaper, we present an original two stages recognizer. Thefirst stage is a model-based classifier that stores anexhaustive set of character models. The second stage is adiscriminative classifier that separates the mostambiguous pairs of classes. This hybrid architecture isbased on the idea that the correct class almostsystematically belongs to the two more relevant classesfound by the first classifier. Experiments on Unipendatabase show a 30% improvement on a 62 classesrecognition problem.