Hybrid generative/discriminative classifier for unconstrained character recognition

  • Authors:
  • Lionel Prevost;Loïc Oudot;Alvaro Moises;Christian Michel-Sendis;Maurice Milgram

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire des Instruments & Systèèmes d'Ile de France, Groupe PARC 4 Pace Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, Case 252, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire des Instruments & Systèèmes d'Ile de France, Groupe PARC 4 Pace Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, Case 252, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire des Instruments & Systèèmes d'Ile de France, Groupe PARC 4 Pace Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, Case 252, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire des Instruments & Systèèmes d'Ile de France, Groupe PARC 4 Pace Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, Case 252, France;Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire des Instruments & Systèèmes d'Ile de France, Groupe PARC 4 Pace Jussieu, Paris Cedex 75252, Case 252, France

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters - Special issue: Artificial neural networks in pattern recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Handwriting recognition for hand-held devices like PDAs requires very accurate and adaptive classifiers. It is such a complex classification problem that it is quite usual now to make co-operate several classification methods. In this paper, we present an original two stages recognizer. The first stage is a model-based classifier which store an exhaustive set of character models. The second stage is a pairwise classifier which separate the most ambiguous pairs of classes. This hybrid architecture is based on the idea that the correct class almost systematically belongs to the two more relevant classes found by the first classifier. Experiments on a 80,000 examples database show a 30% improvement on a 62 classes recognition problem. Moreover, we show experimentally that such an architecture suits perfectly for incremental classification.