In integrated segmentation and recognition (ISR) of handwritten character strings, the underlying classifier is desired to be accurate in character classification and resistant to non-character patterns (also called garbage or outliers). This paper compares the performance of a number of statistical and neural classifiers in ISR. Each classifier has some variations depending on learning method: maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), discriminative learning (DL) under the minimum square error (MSE) or minimum classification error (MCE) criterion, or enhanced DL (EDL) with outlier samples. A heuristic pre-segmentation method is proposed to generate candidate cuts and character patterns. The methods were tested on the 5-digit Zip code images in CEDAR CDROM-1. The results show that training with outliers is crucial for neural classifiers in ISR. The best result was given by the learning quadratic discriminant function (LQDF) classifier.
Integrated segmentation and recognition of handwritten numerals: comparison of classification algorithms
2002-01-01
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