Recognition of handwritten Bengali characters: a novel multistage approach

✍ Scribed by A.F.R. Rahman; R. Rahman; M.C. Fairhurst

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 140 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-3203
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3203(01)00089-9

✦ Synopsis

A multistage scheme for the recognition of handwritten Bengali characters is introduced. An analysis of the Bengali character set has been carried out to isolate speciÿc high-level features that can help in forming smaller sub-groups within the character set. This analysis demonstrates how detection of these various high-level features might help formulate successful multistage OCR design. A multiple expert decision combination hierarchy has been exploited to achieve higher performance from the proposed multi-stage framework.