Handwritten Marathi Character Recognition using Neural Networks
Автор:Sushama Shelke and Shaila Apte Год: 2012 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 188 ISBN: 9783838372815 This book presents a comprehensive research on handwritten Marathi character recognition using Neural networks. It includes extensive study on how to use Neural networks efficiently and achieve high recognition results. Various issues related to Neural networks like selection of the architecture, learning algorithm, number of features, number of hidden neurons etc. are discussed in detail. It includes investigations in pre-processing and features extraction techniques. It explores the combination of Neural networks with other classifiers in various ways to handle a large amount of training data successfully. It presents various classifier combinations, both in horizontal and vertical manner that increases the recognition rate without much computational complexities. This book serves an excellent baseline for those interested in carrying out research in handwritten character recognition. The algorithms discussed here can be applied to recognize characters in other scripts with...