Improved dynamic programming-based handwritten word recognition using optimal order statistics

Wen-Tsong Chen; Paul D. Gader; Hongchi Shi

doi:10.1117/12.279645

14 October 1997 Improved dynamic-programming-based handwritten word recognition using optimal order statistics

Wen-Tsong Chen, Paul D. Gader, Hongchi Shi

Proceedings Volume 3167, Statistical and Stochastic Methods in Image Processing II; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.279645
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Handwritten word recognition is a difficult problem. In the standard segmentation-based approach to handwritten word recognition, individual character class confidence scores are combined to estimate confidences concerning the various hypothesized identities for a word. The standard combination method is the mean. Previously, we demonstrated that the Choquet integral provided higher recognition rates than the mean. Our previous work with the Choquet integral relied on a restricted class of measures. For this class of measures, operators based on the Choquet integral are equivalent to a subset of a class of operators known as linear combinations of order statistics. In this paper, we extend our previous work to find the optimal LOS operator for combining character class confidence scores. Experimental results are provided on about 1300 word images.

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Wen-Tsong Chen, Paul D. Gader, and Hongchi Shi "Improved dynamic-programming-based handwritten word recognition using optimal order statistics", Proc. SPIE 3167, Statistical and Stochastic Methods in Image Processing II, (14 October 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.279645

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