A Turkish handprint character recognition system

Abdulkerim Çapar*, Kadim Taşdemir, Özlem Kilic, Muhittin Gökmen

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Abstract

This paper presents a study for recognizing isolated Turkish handwritten uppercase letters. In the study, first of all, a Turkish Handprint Character Database has been created from the students in Istanbul Technical University (ITU). There are about 20000 uppercase and 7000 digit samples in this database. Several feature extraction and classification techniques are realized and combined to find the best recognition system for Turkish characters. Features, obtained from Karhunen-Loéve Transform, Zernike Moments, Angular Radial Transform and Geometric Features, are classified with Artificial Neural Networks, K-Nearest Neighbor, Nearest Mean, Bayes, Parzen and Size Dependent Negative Log-Likelihood methods. Geometric moments, which are suitable for Turkish characters, are formed. KLT features are fused with other features since KLT gives the best recognition rate but has no information about the shape of the character where other methods have. The fused features of KLT and ART classified by SDNLL gives the best result for Turkish characters in the experiments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsAdnan Yazici, Cevat Sener
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages447-456
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)3540204091, 9783540397373
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2869
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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