• DocumentCode
    1190561
  • Title

    Experiments with Highleyman´s Data

  • Author

    Munson, John H. ; Duda, Richard O. ; Hart, Peter E.

  • Author_Institution
    IEEE
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1968
  • fDate
    4/1/1968 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    399
  • Lastpage
    401
  • Abstract
    Abstract—The results of three experiments with Highleyman´s hand-printed characters are reported. Nearest-neighbor classification is used to explain the high error rates (42 to 60 percent) obtained by general statistical procedures. An error rate of 32 percent is obtained by preceding piecewise-linear classification by edge-detecting preprocessing. The minimum human error rate is estimated, and suggested as a performance standard.
  • Keywords
    Index Terms—Character recognition, classification, feature extraction, human performance, nearest-neighbor classification, pattern recognition, preprocessing.; Character recognition; Decision trees; Error analysis; Feature extraction; Humans; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Piecewise linear techniques; Testing; Training data; Index Terms—Character recognition, classification, feature extraction, human performance, nearest-neighbor classification, pattern recognition, preprocessing.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TC.1968.229391
  • Filename
    1687355