A METHOD FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS RECOGNITION BASED ON A VECTOR FIELD

Tetsuya Izumi, Tetsuo Hattori, Hiroyuki Kitajima, Toshinori Yamasaki

2004

Abstract

In order to obtain a low computational cost method for automatic handwritten characters recognition, this paper proposes a combined system of two rough classification methods based on features of a vector field: one is autocorrelation matrix method, and another is a low frequency Fourier expansion method. In each method, the representation is expressed as vectors, and the similarity is defined as a weighted sum of the squared values of the inner product between input pattern and the reference patterns that are normalized eigenvectors of KL ( Karhunen-Loeve) expansion. This paper also describes a way of deciding the weight coefficients based on linear regression, and shows the effectiveness of the proposed method by illustrating some experimentation results for 3036 categories of handwritten Japanese characters.

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in Harvard Style

Izumi T., Hattori T., Kitajima H. and Yamasaki T. (2004). A METHOD FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS RECOGNITION BASED ON A VECTOR FIELD . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO, ISBN 972-8865-12-0, pages 417-420. DOI: 10.5220/0001149004170420


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco04,
author={Tetsuya Izumi and Tetsuo Hattori and Hiroyuki Kitajima and Toshinori Yamasaki},
title={A METHOD FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS RECOGNITION BASED ON A VECTOR FIELD},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,},
year={2004},
pages={417-420},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001149004170420},
isbn={972-8865-12-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 2: ICINCO,
TI - A METHOD FOR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS RECOGNITION BASED ON A VECTOR FIELD
SN - 972-8865-12-0
AU - Izumi T.
AU - Hattori T.
AU - Kitajima H.
AU - Yamasaki T.
PY - 2004
SP - 417
EP - 420
DO - 10.5220/0001149004170420