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Introduction
Previous work in the field of Offline Handwritten
Character Recognition
References
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Literature Review
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LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Introduction
Handwritten recognition is an area of research where many researchers have presented
their work and is still an area under research to achieve higher accuracy. In past
collecting, storing and transmitting information in form of handwritten script was the
most convenient way and is still prevailing as a convenient medium in the era of digital
technology. As technology has advanced tablet and many similar devices allows
humans to input data in form of handwriting. Use of paper to write handwritten text,
converting to an image using scanner, identifying handwritten characters from the
image is known as off-line handwritten text recognition is a challenging area due to the
fact that each writer will have different style of writing and all scripts have their own
character set and complexities to write text.
Many researchers have worked in the area of handwriting recognition, and numerous
techniques and models have been developed to recognize handwritten text both online
and offline. One can trace extensive work for English and Arabic script whereas
research for handwritten character recognition has progressed in identifying
handwritten characters for many Indian scripts like Devnagari, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada, Hindi, Gurumukhi, Marathi, Gujarati.
This chapter presents review of research work carried out so far in the area of offline
handwritten character, numeral and text recognition. Algorithm and research work
varies from language script to script as many diversities exist such as number of
alphabets, alphabets used to write documents, writing direction etc. Researcher have
presented review of literature on the basis of “Language script” used for handwritten
i.e. English and several Indian scripts.
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2.2 Previous work in the field of Offline Handwritten Character Recognition
English
Dileep Kumar Patel et.al.[1] have proposed multi-resolution technique using Discrete
Wave Transform(DWT) and Euclidean distance metric (EDM) in an attempt to
recognize offline handwritten character. Various processing steps performed on
scanned handwritten image such as binarization, skeletonization, edge detection,
removal of slant angle, multi-resolution using wavelet transform, pattern classes and
mean vector, Minimum distance classifier for getting output. Authors have reported
result of 90% of accuracy with level of multi-resolution set to three and concluded that
further increment in the level of multi-resolution will decrease average recognition
accuracy.
Ravi sheth et.al. [2] have proposed chain code based feature extraction method based
on 8-neighbor principle. For feature extraction 8 different codes are derived based on
neighbor principle and later tested with Neural network (NN) and Support vector
machine (SVM) classifier.
Anita Pal & Dayashankar Singh [3] has performed a work to recognize handwritten
English character for which multilayer preceptor approach is used with one hidden
layer. Result obtained was 94% with Fourier descriptors and back propagation network
Experiment was carried out on skeletonized and normalized binary images. [4]
Sandeep saha et. al.[5] have proposed 40-point feature extraction method for
recognizing offline handwritten alphabetic character and multi-layer feed forward
neural network.
Brijesh verma et.al. [6] have presented novel approach to extract structural features
based on contour code and stroke direction for recognizing segmented cursive
handwriting. Properties such as ascender and descender count, start point and end point,
rate of change of slope are considered for contour code feature where as individual line
segments, stroke from outer boundary properties can be extracted based on directional
features. On cursive character dataset some of the process performed includes
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thresholding, slant estimation and correction, baseline computation, noise and underline
removal, segmentation. In this work authors have concluded that contour code
technique produces top results by comparing it with directional and transition feature
extraction techniques.
To recognize handwritten word Yamada and Nakano [7] has presented character
recognizer system in which segmented characters from the CEDAR benchmark
database were trained for classification. [8].
In a research presented by Kimura et al. [9] where to recognize segmented character a
52-output classifier was used along with neural and statistical classifiers. For case
sensitive experiments, their neural classifier produced an accuracy of 73.25%, which
again was comparable to the combined dataset result of 84.58% presented in this
research. [8]
In work presented by Singh and Hewitt [10] linear discriminant analysis approach is
proposed and authors have obtained a recognition rate of 67.3%. The result obtained
from the combined dataset (84.58%) compares well to their recognition rate.[8].
In [11] authors have proposed a method building skeletal graphs from handwritten
images to extract high level features i.e. loops, turns, ends, junctions. To obtain result
block adjacency graph is used as a base. Authors have tested proposed approach on
3000 word images from US postal addresses digitized at 212 dpi.
Cheng-Lin Liu et.al.[12] have proposed improved normalized functions and directional
feature extraction strategies. Dimension and moments based normalization functions
and eight feature vectors is compared on three distinct data sources and have concluded
that moment based function outperform dimension based functions.
Multiple feature extraction technique is proposed in [13] where six methods for
extracting features are used i.e. multi zoning, modified edge maps, structural
characteristics, projections, concavities, measurements and gradient directional
features. Approach was tested on MNIST database using Multilayer perceptron (MLP)
with resilient backpropagation.
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Structural features includes number of vertical and horizontal lines, end points, number
of intersections and junctions, presence of loops, number of loops, number and
intersections between the character and straight lines, holes position[ 14][15].
To recognize handwritten numerals Lee and Gomes [16] have extracted features such
as number of central, left and right cavities, location of each central cavity, the crossing
sequences, the number of intersections with the principal and secondary axes and the
pixel distribution.[15]
Sami M. Halawani et. al. [17] have proposed use of geometrical feature to recognize
hand printed characters. Low level features such as end-point, T-point and a global
information such as number of corners – a high stroke curvature. Authors have achieved
99% of recognition rate.
M. Karic and G. Martinovic [18] have proposed use of concavity features along with
gradient and chain code and for classification two Support vector classifiers are used
one with radial basis function kernel and polynomial kernel. Authors have tested work
on MNIST, USPS and USPS-r.
V Vijay Kumar et.al.[19] have divided handwritten digits into two groups. One in which
digit contains blobs with/without stems and other group of digits having stem only.
Morphological region filling approach is proposed to identify blobs. Connected
component is used to identify blobs and stems. By proposed approach average
recognition success rate is above 90% is reported.
Devnagari
For recognition of isolated handwritten Devnagari numerals Principal component
analysis (PCA) along with edge direction histogram and spines are used.[20][21].
A comparative study of Devnagari handwritten character recognition using twelve
different classifiers and four sets of feature was presented by Pal [22][21].
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B.V. Dhandra et.al. [23] have proposed neural network approach along with four
feature selection methods i.e. maximum profile distances, fill hole density, water
reservoir and directional density features for recognizing Devnagari handwritten
numerals and have achieved 98.4% recognition rate.
Mahesh Jangid et.al.[24] have applied various preprocessing steps such as intensity
adjustment, binarization, removing connected components, removing salt and pepper
noise, normalizing image to 90 x 90 on handwritten Devnagari numerals. Recursive
subdivision of character image is carried out for extracting features and for
classification Support vector machine (SVM) classifier is used and 98.98% recognition
rate is achieved. Further in [25] authors have implemented density and background
directional distribution features for various zones where every zone is of size 8 x 8
pixels and each zone contains 9 features consisting of one density feature and 8
background directional distribution features. For classification Support vector machine
(SVM) is used with RBF kernel.
To recognize non compound devnagari handwritten characters Sandhya arora et.al.[26]
have proposed approach in which two approaches are combined i.e. Multilayer
Perceptron(MLP) and Minimum edit distance. Shadow features and chain code
histogram features are used with MLP.
N. Sharma and U. Pal [27,28] proposed a directional chain code features based
quadratic classifier and obtained 80.36% accuracy for handwritten Devnagari
characters and 98.86% accuracy for handwritten Devnagari numerals.[26]
For skew correction [29] have used Wigner-Ville distribution which is a joint function
of time and frequency of the projections taken at various angles for skew angle detection
task of handwritten devnagari script with a assumption that shirorekha should be
present in document.
R J Ramteke et al [30] have presented use of invariant moments and the divisions of
image to recognize images.
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For Devnagari handwritten character recognition Kumar et.al. have proposed Zernike
moment feature based approach and artificial neural network is used for classification
of handwritten devnagari character recognition.[31]
Shailedra Kumar Shrivastava and Sanjay S.Gharde [32] have proposed affine invariant
moment and Support vector machine for recognition and have achieved average
recognition rate of 99.48%. [4]
Prachi Mukherji and Priti Rege [33][34] used shape features and fuzzy logic to
recognize offline Devnagari character recognition. They segmented the thinned
character into strokes using structural features like endpoint, cross-point, junction
points, and thinning. They classified the segmented shapes or strokes as left curve, right
curve, horizontal stroke, vertical stroke, slanted lines etc. They used tree and fuzzy
classifiers and obtained average 86.4% accuracy.
To recognize handwritten Devnagari numeral Sontakke and Patil et al. [35][34] have
proposed general fuzzy hyperline segment neural network approach. They proposed a
rotation, scale and translation invariant algorithm and reported 99.5% recognition rate.
Anilkumar N Holambe et. al.[36] have combined statistical, structural and global
transformation and moment features to have hybrid feature vector. To extract structural
features image is divided into zones and various features are extracted from zone such
as starting point, intersection point, line segment, determine line direction, type and
normalize length. Structural features based on regional properties are extracted such as
Euler number, regional area, eccentricity, orientation and for Global transformation
moments Zernike moments. Further authors in [37] have used Gradient feature as
feature extraction technique to recognize handwritten character and number of
Devnagari script. Sobel and Robert operators are used for extracting gradient features.
For classification Support vector machine (SVM) and K-nearest neighbor (KNN)
approaches are combined and have concluded that combination proves better on all
types of datasets.
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Combination of global and local features approach was presented in a work [38]] to
recognize handwritten Devnagari digits. Global features extracted includes end point,
junction point, loop, maximum profile distance, ‘U’ shape structure, ‘C’ shape structure
and to extract local features such as centroid distance feature, number of peaks in
histogram, sorted density in histogram image is divided into zones. For classification
neural network approach is used.
Gurumukhi
Sharma D. et.al. [21][39] have proposed work to recognize isolated handwritten
Gurumukhi characters where zoning is used to derive feature vector and two
classification methods were used i.e. K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Support vector
machine (SVM) and have achieved result as 72.54%, 72.68%, 73.02% and 72.83%
respectively.
For feature extraction Singh[21][40] have extracted statistical features such as zonal
density, four directional histogram projection profile, four distance profile along with
background directional distribution (BDD) features. The highest accuracy obtained was
95.04% as 5- fold cross validation with SVM classifier used with RBF kernel among
SVM, K-NN and PNN classifiers.
In the research work by kartar Singh et. al. [41] have computed distance from outer
edges of character to bounding box of character from four sides for extracting features
from Gurumukhi numerals. Further they have created another feature vector set by
counting number of foreground pixel in specific direction in horizontal, vertical and
both diagonal direction. Image is divided into 16 zones and have considered
background directional distribution features and found best result in recognizing
Gurumukhi numerals against projection histograms and distance profile methods.
Sukhpreet singh et.al.[42] have proposed use of Gabor filters to recognize isolated
handwritten Gurumukhi characters along with Support vector machine (SVM) for
classification and tested using five-fold cross validation function and have concluded
to have 94.29% of maximum recognition rate for proposed work.
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Bangla
Ahmed shah et. al.[43] have presented their work for recognizing offline handwritten
Bangla characters. Bangla text is taken as input, segmented into lines, words and
characters, boundary detection of each character, size normalization and compared with
equivalent superimposed form.
U.Pal. et.al. [44] have presented their research work to recognize unconstrained offline
Bangla handwritten numerals. Water overflow reservoir and topological and structural
features are used to extract features. On 12000 numeral approach was tested and
reported 92.8% of recognition rate.
Marathi
G.G. Rajput and S.M. Mali [45] have shown use of Fourier descriptor and normalized
chain code to recognize isolated Marathi handwritten numerals. For classification
Support vector machine (SVM) is used on database of 12690 samples using fivefold
cross validation technique and have achieved 98.15% of recognition accuracy.
Shushma shelke and Shaila apte [46] have proposed work to recognize unconstrained
handwritten Marathi compound characters. Initial stage of feature extraction is based
on structural features and classification done as per structural parameters into 24 classes
where as in final stage wavelet transform is used as feature extraction. Wavelet features
extracted are then applied to neural network for classification. With wavelet
approximation features authors have achieved 94.22% and with modified wavelet
features 96.23% recognition rate for testing samples.
In research work presented by Reena Bajaj et.al [47] to recognize handwritten Marathi
numerals, three different types of features such as density features, moment features
and descriptive component features are used. Three different neural classifiers have
been used for classification of the numerals. Finally, the outputs of the three classifiers
are combined using a connectionist scheme.[45]
Vijay Rahul pawar and Arun Gaikwad [48] have worked to recognize isolated Marathi
character and various structural and statistical features are extracted like end points,
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middle bar, loop, end bar, aspect ratio etc. Self-organizing map (SOM) approach for
classification is used and 93% accuracy is achieved.
Tamil
N. Shanthi and K. Duraiswamy[49] have presented their work on impact of image size
on performance outcome to recognize unconstrained handwritten Tamil characters
using Support Vector Machine (SVM). Authors have collected handwritten samples
from different writers and performed digitization and preprocessing steps on scanned
images. Image is divided into different zones and pixel density is calculated and taken
as a base for feature selection. Support vector machine is used as classifier. Three
different image size with resolution 32 X 32, 48 X 48 and 64 X 64 is taken for
comparing performance and concluded that 64 X 64 yields best result. Authors have
reported 87.4% of recognition rate by training SVM with 106 different characters.
In [21][50] zone based features are extracted to recognize Tamil handwritten numerals
using nearest neighbor and Support vector machine classification approach and have
reported success rate of 93.9% and 94.9%.
To recognize handwritten Tamil text Bhattacharya et.al. [21][51] have proposed
algorithm where unsupervised clustering method and a supervised classification
technique is used.
For recognizing Tamil handwritten characters Kohonen self organizing maps (KSOM)
is used with a fine-tuning method, that uses global features and have reported a
recognition accuracy of 86%.[52][21]
R.Jagdeesh Kanan et. al. [53] have proposed improved approach for recognizing Tamil
character using octal graph conversion method. Certain process carried out on input
image includes preprocessing, segmentation, normalization before features are
extracted. Here input letter is converted to octal graph by representing given character
as a node of a graph where each node has eight fields. Authors have reported 82% of
success rate.
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To recognize handwritten Tamil characters S. Hewavitharana and H. C. Fernando [54]
have proposed use of a two-stage classification approach, for a subset of the Tamil
alphabet and their first stage, an unknown character is pre-classified into one of the
three groups: core, ascending and descending characters, then, the second stage,
members of the pre-classified group are further analyzed using a statistical classifier for
final recognition.[55]
As per concept given by N. Santhi et. al. [56] it is process when applied peels off a
pattern as may pixels as possible in such a way so that general shape of the patter is not
affected. Authors have used Hilditch’s algorithm for skeletonization and used otsu’s
global thresholding technique based on histogram for thresholding. Further authors
have used horizontal histogram profile for line segmentation and vertical histogram
profile used to segment character.
R. Jagadeesh Kannan and R. Prabhakar [55] have proposed discrete Hidden Markov
Model (HMM) to recognize offline cursive handwritten Tamil characters.
Preprocessing operations such as binarization, noise removal, skew correction is
performed and line, words and characters are segmented.
L.Anlo Safi and K.G.Srinivasagan [57] have shown use of zone based hybrid feature
extraction technique to recognize offline Tamil handwritten character. They have
extracted certain features from character image that includes number of horizontal line,
vertical line, diagonal lines with their total length in each zone. For classification feed
forward back propagation neural network is used and have concluded to have 98% of
highest recognition accuracy.
Telugu
B.V.Dhandra et.al. [23] have proposed neural network approach along with four feature
selection methods i.e. maximum profile distances, fill hole density, water reservoir and
directional density features for recognizing Telugu handwritten numerals and have
achieved 99.6% recognition rate.
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P. Bhaskara Rao et. al. [58] have used Zernike moments as shape descriptors and
identified it as rotation invariant.
Manipuri
Chandan Jyoti kumar and Sanjib kumar kalita have presented their research work in
[59] to recognize handwritten numeral of Manipuri script. Various feature extraction
technique used which includes background directional distribution (BDD), zone based
diagonal, projection histogram and histogram oriented gradient features. Support vector
machine (SVM) with five-fold cross validation with RBF kernel is used for
classification and testing.
For recognizing Manipuri script handwritten character T.Thokchom et.al [60] have
investigated a back propagation neural network approach. Probabilistic and fuzzy
features are extracted from character matrix. Network was trained and tested for
performance. They found recognition accuracy of 90.3%. [59]
Kannada
T V Ashwin et. al.[61] have segmented image into various zones to capture shape of
the characters in the angular directions. For classification Support vector machines
(SVM) is used and recognition rate obtained is 87% to 95%.
In [50] zone based features are extracted to recognize Kannada handwritten numerals
using nearest neighbor and Support vector machine classification approach and have
reported success rate of 97.75% and 98.2%. Further [62] authors has proposed zone and
image centroid based features extraction method is proposed. The image is divided into
equal zones, centroid of character is computed, average distance of each pixel to this
centroid point is calculated, and process is repeated for entire image.
In work [63] to recognize Kannada numerals zoning and direction chain code approach
is presented.
G.G.Rajput et.al.[64] have proposed a work to recognize printed and handwritten
Kannada numerals where all images are normalized to 40 x 40 followed by tracing
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boundary, determining chain code and 10 dimensional fourier descriptor are computed
to form feature vector. For classification multi-class Support vector machine (SVM) is
used on 2500 handwritten images with experiment carried out on five-fold cross
validation method and have reported average recognition rate of 97.34% for Kannada
numerals.
Directional features extraction technique i.e. histograms of direction chain code of the
contour points for recognition of handwritten Kannada numerals is proposed by
Mamatha H.R. et.al [65] where K-means clustering is used for classification. Further in
[66] an effort to recognize Kannada numerals have proposed fan beam projection a
variation of Radon transform is proposed as feature extraction method. 55 diverging
beams are considered by taking projection at by rotating source image at different
angles around center pixel. Size of feature vector for one numeral is 1 x 360. K-nearest
neighbor approach is proposed for classification and experiment is carried out on 1000
images and have achieved 86.29% recognition rate.
In research work presented [67] to recognize handwritten Kannada numerals two
feature extraction method is proposed i.e. Run length count (RLC) and directional chain
code is proposed and for classification K-nearest neighbor and linear classifier is used.
They have concluded to have higher recognition accuracy with directional chain code
against run length count.
Niranjan s.k. et.al. [68] have shown use of Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FLD)
for feature extraction as two dimension FLD and diagonal FLD. Distance measure
techniques such as correlation coefficient, Manhattan, Mahalanobis distance between
normed vectors, Mahalanobis, Euclidean, Minkowski, Modified manhattan, Modified
sq. Euclidean, Mean sq. error, Sq. Euclidean, weight angle, weight manhattan, weight
modified manhattan, weight modified SSE, weight SSE, Canberra and angle is used for
recognizing unconstrained Kannada handwritten characters.
Work proposed in [8] to recognize segmented or cursive characters modified direction
feature (MDF) extraction technique is proposed which is based on direction feature
technique. Extension to directional feature technique to integrate directional
information with finding transition between foreground and background pixels.
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Authors have tested MDF approach with neural network classifier and further compared
it with directional feature and transition features and concluded that MDF is
outperforming both. Proposed approach was tested on CEDAR database with
recognition accuracy above 89% is observed by authors.
Shivanand Rumma et.al. [69] have proposed use of radial basis function for recognizing
handwritten Kannada numerals.
Oriya
In a research work presented by Chaudhari et al.[70] water reservoir approach is used
for feature extraction and classification upon preprocessed image. Preprocessing steps
applied on handwritten image includes skew correction, segmentation of line, zone
detection, segmentation of word and character etc. and with proposed approach they
have achieved 96.3% of accuracy.
Gujarati
Character
In a work presented by Jayshree R. Prasad et.al. [71] pattern matching approach is
proposed to recognize offline handwritten character of Gujarati script. Various
preprocessing steps carried out on given scanned image as input png file which includes
removing salt and pepper noise, binary image, thinning, segmentation. Feed forward
neural network with back propagation learning is considered to train the network.
Template matching is used along with Cross correlation function. With this approach
authors have concluded to have average overall recognition rate of 71.66%.
Chayya Patel et.al. [72] have proposed research work to segment handwritten Gujarati
text lines into words. Morphological operations and projection profile based algorithm
was tested on 500 text line where some lines are repeated by same writer or different
writer and concluded to have batter accuracy rate is achieved in a case if text line is
written by same writer than different writers. Further segmentation approach using
vertical projection profile where all columns are checked where if ON pixels are less
then certain threshold value then it is considered as white space and separation is made
to extract words from character. In [73] work is reported to extract upper modifiers and
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lower modifiers for detecting upper zone and lower zone based on which middle zone
is identified. Input handwritten image is converted to binary image and Euclidean
distance transform is generated for to determine peak and valley for zones. Authors
have tested proposed work on 250 Gujarati words.
To recognize handwritten Gujarati character [74] proposes radial histogram approach
for feature extraction and Euclidean distance classifier is used as classification. Some
preprocessing steps applied includes binarization and normalization and 72 features
derived on the basis of radial histogram on handwritten input images and reported
26.86% of accuracy rate.
Number
Avani R. Vasant et. al.[75] have evaluated performance of different image size to
recognize offline handwritten Gujarati digits. Data samples collected and digitized at a
resolution of 150 dpi and performed various preprocessing operations. Images are
resized in three different sizes i.e. 7 x 5, 14 x 10 and 16 x 16. Back propagation neural
network is proposed for classification. Research approach was applied on collected
3900 handwritten digits where 2100 are used for testing and remaining for training
purpose and reported recognition rate of 87.29%, 88.52% and 88.76% on 7 x 5, 14 x 10
and 16 x 16 image sizes and concluded that with 16 x 16 image size best recognition
rate is achieved as more details can be captured if image size increase.
In a work presented in [76] to recognize handwritten Gujarati numeral support vector
machine (SVM) approach is proposed. Handwritten samples digitized at 300 dpi and
preprocessing steps were applied to remove noise, skew correction, enhancing image
by morphological operations, size normalization. All images were normalized as 40 x
40 for which nearest neighbor interpolation technique is applied, then image is
converted to binary then image is skeletonized to prepare it for next phase of
recognition. For feature extraction image is divide into various size boxes and based on
that four feature sets are derived from which classification is carried out using SVM.
Authors have concluded to have 90.55% of average recognition rate in which ‘0’ is
having highest recognition rate with proposed approach.
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Bhaeti M.J. et. al. [77] have compared two classifiers namely K-nearest neighbor
classifier (KNN) and Principal component analysis (PCA) to recognize offline
handwritten Gujarati numerals. Affine moment invariant (AMI) model is used for
feature extraction and concluded that KNN is better classifier than PCA as recognition
rate reported is 90.04% against 84.1% respectively. In [78] authors have extended
comparison with Principal component analysis (PCA), Support vector machine (SVM),
K-nearest neighbor (KNN) and Gussian distribution function along with Affine
moment invariant (AMI) as feature extraction method and achieved recognition rate for
identifying Gujarati digits as 84.1%, 92.28%, 90.04% and 87.2% respectively with
conclusion that SVM is better classifier.
Kamal moro et. al.[79] have achieved 80.5% of overall performance and in their
research work to recognize Gujarati handwritten numeral using neural network
classifier.
A.A. Desai [80] has collected 300 samples of 300dpi with initial size of each numeral
as 90x90. the author then adjusted the contrast by CLAHE i.e. contrast limited adaptive
histogram equalization algorithm considering 8x8 tiles and 0.01 as contrast
enhancement constant. The boundaries are then smoothed out by median filter of 3x3
neighborhoods. Image is then reconstructed to the size of 16x16 pixels using nearest
neighbor interpolation. For feature extraction four profile vectors are used as an
abstracted feature of identification of digit. Five more patterns for each digit are created
in both clockwise and anticlockwise directions with the difference of 2degrees each up
to 10◦. A feed forward back propagation neural network is used for Gujarati numeral
classification with 278 sets of various digits. Out of these 278 sets, 11 sets were created
by a standard font. From the 265 sets the author recorded the success rate for standard
fonts as 71.82%, for handwritten training sets as 91.0% while for testing sets as a score
of 81.5% was recorded.
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