Usage of the back-propagation method for alphabet recognition

R. Naga Shaila Sree; Kumar Eswaran; N. Sundararajan

doi:10.1117/12.342911

22 March 1999 Usage of the back-propagation method for alphabet recognition

R. Naga Shaila Sree, Kumar Eswaran, N. Sundararajan

Proceedings Volume 3722, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence II; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342911
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Artificial Neural Networks play a pivotal role in the branch of Artificial Intelligence. They can be trained efficiently for a variety of tasks using different methods, of which the Back Propagation method is one among them. The paper studies the choosing of various design parameters of a neural network for the Back Propagation method. The study shows that when these parameters are properly assigned, the training task of the net is greatly simplified. The character recognition problem has been chosen as a test case for this study. A sample space of different handwritten characters of the English alphabet was gathered. A Neural net is finally designed taking many the design aspects into consideration and trained for different styles of writing. Experimental results are reported and discussed. It has been found that an appropriate choice of the design parameters of the neural net for the Back Propagation method reduces the training time and improves the performance of the net.

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R. Naga Shaila Sree, Kumar Eswaran, and N. Sundararajan "Usage of the back-propagation method for alphabet recognition", Proc. SPIE 3722, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence II, (22 March 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342911

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