• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.456-459
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• 1999

In this paper, we propose a method of unconstrained handwritten numeral recognition using image dithering and multiple modular MLPs. The set of sample numeral patterns is subdivided into clusters which are extended by their radius. On each extended cluster, we constructed MLPs network as the expert recognizer of corresponding cluster. The gating network is also trained by an MLPs to weigh the outputs of expert MLPs. In training and test phase of the recognizer, we utilize the multiple dithered numeral images and the combination of the outputs for corresponding dithered images. Experimental results show that our recognition method works very well.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.82-89
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• 2001

This paper presents recognition of unconstrained handwritten numeral strings using decision value generator, which is combined with both isolated digit identifier and recognizer designed with structural characteristics of digits. Numerical string recognition system is composed of three modules, which are pre-segmentation, segmentation and recognition. Pre-segmentation module classifies a numeral string into sub-images, which are isolated digit, touched digits or broken digit, using confidence value of decision value generator. Segmentation module segments touched digits using reliability value of decision value generator that will separate the leftmost digit from touched string of digits. Segmentation-based and segmentation-free methods have used for classification and segmentation, respectively. To evaluate proposed method, experiments have carried out with handwritten numeral strings of NIST SD19 and higher recognition performance than previous works has obtained with 96.7%.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.174-183
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a novel feature for recognizing handwritten Odia numerals. By using polygonal approximation, each numeral is segmented into segments of equal pixel counts where the centroid of the character is kept as the origin. Three primitive contour features namely, distance (l), angle (${\theta}$), and arc-tochord ratio (r), are extracted from these segments. These features are used in a neural classifier so that the numerals are recognized. Other existing features are also considered for being recognized in the neural classifier, in order to perform a comparative analysis. We carried out a simulation on a large data set and conducted a comparative analysis with other features with respect to recognition accuracy and time requirements. Furthermore, we also applied the feature to the numeral recognition of two other languages-Bangla and English. In general, we observed that our proposed contour features outperform other schemes.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.14-22
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• 2001

Off-line handwritten numeral recognition is a very difficult task and hard to achieve high recognition results using a single feature and a single classifier, since handwritten numerals contain many pattern variations which mostly depend upon individual writing styles. In this paper, we propose handwritten numeral recognition system using hybrid features and combined classifier. To improve recognition rate, we select mutually helpful features -directional features, crossing point feature and mesh features- and make throe new hybrid feature sets by using these features. These hybrid feature sets hold the local and global characteristics of input numeral images. And we implement combined classifier by combining three neural network classifiers to achieve high recognition rate, where fuzzy integral is used for multiple network fusion. In order to verify the performance of the proposed recognition system, experiments with the unconstrained handwritten numeral database of Concordia University, Canada were performed. As a result, our method has produced 97.85% of the recognition rate.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.543-551
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• 1999

The primary purposes in this paper are to analyze the class separation of features in handwritten numeral recognition and to make use of the results in feature selection. Using the Parzen window technique, we compute the class distributions and define the class separation to be the overlapping distance of two class distributions. The dimension of a feature vector is reduced by removing the void or redundant feature cells based on the class separation information. The experiments have been performed on the CENPARMI handwritten numeral database, and partial classification and full classification have been tested. The results show that the class separation is very effective for the feature selection in the 10-class handwritten numeral recognition problem since we could reduce the dimension of the original 256-dimensional feature vector by 22%.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1834-1843
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a modular neural network based classification method for handwritten numerals utilizing rotated and translated images of an input image. The whole numeral pattern space is divided into smaller spaces which overlap each other and form multiple clusters. On these multiple clusters, multiple multilayer perceptrons (MLP) neural networks, specialized in those clusters, are constructed. Thus, each MLP acts as an expert network on the corresponding cluster. An MLP is also used as a gating network functioning as a mediator among the multiple MLPs. In the learning phase, an input numeral image is dithered by tow geometric operations of translation and rotation so that new numeral images similar to original one are generated. In the recognition phase, we utilize not only input numeral image, but also nearly generated images through the rotation and the translation of the original image. Thus, multiple output values for those generated images were combined to make class decision by various combination methods. The experimental results confirm the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.136-142
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• 2007

Recent researches in the recognition system have shown that SVM (Support Vector Machine) classifiers often have superior recognition rates in comparison to other classifiers. In this paper, we present the handwritten numeral recognition algorithm using SVM classifiers. The numeral features used in our algorithm are mesh features, directional features by Kirsch operators and concavity features, where first two features represent the foreground information of numerals and the last feature represents the background information of numerals. These features are complements each of the other. Since SVM is basically a binary classifier, it is required to construct and combine several binary SVMs to get the multi-class classifiers. We use two strategies for implementing multi-class SVM classifiers: "one against one" and "one against the rest", and examine their performances on the features used. The efficiency of our method is tested by the CENPARMI handwritten numeral database, and the recognition rate of 98.45% is achieved.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.554-559
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new method of weighted template matching fur machine-printed numeral recognition. The proposed weighted template matching, which emphasizes the feature of a pattern using adaptive Hamming distance on local feature areas, improves the recognition rate while template matching processes an input image as one global feature. The experiment compares confusion matrices of the template matching, error back propagation neural network classifier, and the proposed weighted template matching respectively. The result shows that the proposed method improves fairly the recognition rate of the machine-printed numerals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.1607-1615
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• 2005

This Paper describes the implementation methods of MLP (mulilayer perceptrons) neural networks to recognize or reject handwritten numerals and non-nummerals. The MLP has known to be a very efficient classifier to recognize handwritten numerals in terms of recognition accuracy, speed, and memory requirements. In the previous researches, however, researchers have focused on the only numeral inputs and have not payed attention to the non-numeral inputs with respect to recognition accuracy, rejection rates, and other characteristics. In this paper, we present some implementation methods of the MLP in the environments that numeral and non-numerals are mixed. The MLPs have been developed by three methods, and investigated with three error types introduced. The experiments have been conducted on a total of 66,701 images of numerals and non-numerals. The promising method to recognize numerals and reject non-numerals has been described in terms of the three error types.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11c
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• pp.33-36
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• 2000

In this paper, we describe a study on the spotting and recognition of handwritten numerals using neural networks. To recognize a handwritten numeral, two kinds of neural network classifiers ate developed. One makes use of the positive samples only, while the other does both of the positive and negative samples. We propose two numeral spotters which discriminate between numerals and non-numerals. Those are also implemented by using neural networks. From the various experimental results, we found that our methods can be successfully applied to spot and recognize handwritten numerals.