Machine Learning and Applications; Proceedings: International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (6th: 2007: Cincinnati, Ohio)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wani, M. Arif, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machine learning--Congresses.

Machine learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] IEEE Computer Society Press 2007

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An optical character recognition (OCR) system with a high recognition rate is challenging to develop. One of the major contributors to OCR errors is smeared characters. Several factors lead to the smearing of characters such as bad scanning quality and a poor binarization technique. Typical approaches to character segmentation falls into three major categories: image-based, recognition-based, and holistic-based. Among these approaches, the segmentation path can be linear or non-linear. Our paper proposes a non-linear approach to segment characters on grayscale document images. Our method first determines whether characters are smeared together using general character features. The correct segmentation path is found using a shortest path approach. We achieved a segmentation accuracy of 95% over a set of about 2,000 smeared characters.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781509089468

1509089462