Title :
Results Obtained Using a Simple Character Recognition Procedure on Munson´s Handprinted Data
Author :
Hussain, A.B.Shahidul ; Toussaint, Godfried T. ; Donaldson, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electric Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 8, B. C., Canada.
Abstract :
The number of black points in each of the 25 nonoverlapping square regions of a size-normalized character matrix were used to recognize the 3822 uppercase handprinted alphabetic characters from Munson´s multiauthor data set. The recognition accuracy obtained using a Bayes´ classifier, which assumes statistically independent features, compares favorably with earlier results obtained using recognition systems having complexity comparable to ours. Included are results and a recommendation regarding system evaluation procedures.
Keywords :
Character recognition; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Data mining; Digital arithmetic; Feature extraction; Fourier transforms; Pattern recognition; Shape; Testing; Character recognition; Munson´s data; character size normalization; classification; experimental methodology; feature extraction; handprinted characters; limited data experiments; pattern recognition; preprocessing;
Journal_Title :
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TC.1972.5008927
