• DocumentCode
    2764459
  • Title

    The use of eigenpictures for optical character recognition

  • Author

    Muller, Neil ; Herbst, Ben

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Math., Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    16-20 Aug 1998
  • Firstpage
    1124
  • Abstract
    We show that the ideas behind the eigenface technique can be easily extended to the OCR problem by using multiple image classes. In addition, we also describe a modification to the standard Euclidean distance measure used for recognition which gives very good results in this context
  • Keywords
    covariance matrices; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; image classification; optical character recognition; eigenpictures; multiple image classes; optical character recognition; Africa; Character recognition; Covariance matrix; Face recognition; Identity-based encryption; Image databases; Mathematics; Measurement standards; Optical character recognition software; System testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Brisbane, Qld.
  • ISSN
    1051-4651
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8512-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICPR.1998.711892
  • Filename
    711892