A System for Offline Recognition of Handwritten Characters in Malayalam Script

In this paper, we propose a handwritten character recognition system for Malayalam language. The feature extraction phase consists of gradient and curvature calculation and dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis. Directional information from the arc tangent of gradient is used a...

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Main Author: Jomy John, Kannan Balakrishnan, Pramod K. V
Format: Printed Book
Published: I.J. Image, Graphics and Signal Processing, 2013
Subjects:
CHARACTER RECOGNITION; > GRADIENT; > CURVATURE; > PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/005739.pdf
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Summary:In this paper, we propose a handwritten character recognition system for Malayalam language. The feature extraction phase consists of gradient and curvature calculation and dimensionality reduction using Principal Component Analysis. Directional information from the arc tangent of gradient is used as gradient feature. Strength of gradient in curvature direction is used as the curvature feature. The proposed system uses a combination of gradient and curvature feature in reduced dimension as the feature vector. For classification, discriminative power of Support Vector Machine (SVM) is evaluated. The results reveal that SVM with Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel yield the best performance with 96.28% and 97.96% of accuracy in two different datasets. This is the highest accuracy ever reported on these datasets.
Physical Description:p.53-59 4

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