A MOVING WINDOW CLASSIFIER FOR OFF­LINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION

M. S. HOQUE, M. C. FAIRHURST

Electronic Engineering Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury,
Kent CT2 7NT, United Kingdom.
E­mail: fmsh4,mcfg@ukc.ac.uk

A new classification scheme, primarily aimed at applications in document image processing, is presented. Features are extracted from a partial image and a sub­ classifier generates scores based on the likelihood of the sub­image belonging to the candidate classes. This partial classification is carried out for several overlapping image segments and scores are combined to make the final classification. The scheme shows promising results in OCR applications where high processing speeds are achievable with minimal compromise in the recognition accuracy.

In: L.R.B. Schomaker and L.G. Vuurpijl (Eds.)
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers
in Handwriting Recognition, September 11-13 2000, Amsterdam,
Nijmegen: International Unipen Foundation,
ISBN 90-76942-01-3
pp. 595-600.