A NEURAL-NETWORK CLASSIFIER FOR OCR USING STRUCTURAL DESCRIPTIONS

被引:1
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作者
CORDELLA, LP
DESTEFANO, C
VENTO, M
机构
[1] Univ of Naples `Federico II', Naples, Italy
关键词
OCR; HAND-PRINTING; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; NEURAL CLASSIFIER; CLASSIFICATION RELIABILITY;
D O I
10.1007/s001380050014
中图分类号
TP18 [人工智能理论];
学科分类号
081104 ; 0812 ; 0835 ; 1405 ;
摘要
We present a method for character recognition especially designed for the case in which the shapes of characters belonging to the same class vary greatly, as it happens with unconstrained hand-printed characters and omnifont printed characters. The most distinctive feature of the method is the use of a special kind of structural description of character shape in connection with a neural network classifier. An original technique is used to achieve the best trade-off between reject and misclassification rates. Experimental results on databases of both hand-printed and printed characters are illustrated.
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页码:336 / 342
页数:7
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