Object Orientation Detection And Character-Recognition Using Optimal Feedforward Network And Kohonen Feature Map

1992
A neural network model, namely, Kohonen's Feature Map, together with the optimal feedforward network is used for variable font machine printed character recognition with tolerance to rotation, shift in position, and size errors. The determination of object orientation is found using the many rotated versions of individual symbols. Orientations are detected from printed text, but no knowledge of the context is used. The optimal Bayesian detector is derived, and it is shown that the optimal detector has the form of a feedforward network. This network together with the learning vector quantization (LVQ) approach is able to implement an inspection system which determines the orientation of the fonts. After the size normalization, rotation, and component finding process as a preprocessing step, the text becomes the input for the feature map. The feature map is trained first in an unsupervised manner. The algorithm is then adapted for supervised learning using improved LVQ technique. Rectangular and minimal spanning tree (MST) neighborhood topologies are experimented with. The results are encouraging, 87% of the characters of various fonts are correctly recognized even though the pattern is distorted in shape and transformed in a shift, size, and rotation invariant manner. Experimental results and comparisons are described.

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Citation Formats
N. Baykal, “Object Orientation Detection And Character-Recognition Using Optimal Feedforward Network And Kohonen Feature Map,” 1992, vol. 1709, p. 292, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/52499.