An improved handwritten Chinese character recognition system using support vector machine

  • Authors:
  • Jian-xiong Dong;Adam Krzyak;Ching Y. Suen

  • Affiliations:
  • Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite GM-606, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8;Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8;Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite GM-606, Montréal, QC, Canada H3G 1M8

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

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Abstract

This paper describes several techniques improving a Chinese character recognition system. Enhanced nonlinear normalization, feature extraction and tuning kernel parameters of support vector machine on a large data set with thousands of classes, contribute to improvement of the overall system performance. The enhanced nonlinear normalization method not only solves the aliasing problem in the original Yamada et al.'s nonlinear normalization method but also avoids the undue stroke distortion in the peripheral region of the normalized image. The support vector machine is for the first time tested on a large data set composed of several million samples and thousands of classes. The recognition system has achieved a high recognition rate of 99.0% on ETL9B, a handwritten Chinese character database.