Handwritten word preprocessing for database adaptation

Cristina Oprean; Laurence Likforman-Sulem; Chafic Mokbel

doi:10.1117/12.2004312

4 February 2013 Handwritten word preprocessing for database adaptation

Cristina Oprean, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Chafic Mokbel

Proceedings Volume 8658, Document Recognition and Retrieval XX; 865808 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004312
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2013, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

Handwriting recognition systems are typically trained using publicly available databases, where data have been collected in controlled conditions (image resolution, paper background, noise level,...). Since this is not often the case in real-world scenarios, classification performance can be affected when novel data is presented to the word recognition system. To overcome this problem, we present in this paper a new approach called database adaptation. It consists of processing one set (training or test) in order to adapt it to the other set (test or training, respectively). Specifically, two kinds of preprocessing, namely stroke thickness normalization and pixel intensity normalization are considered. The advantage of such approach is that we can re-use the existing recognition system trained on controlled data. We conduct several experiments with the Rimes 2011 word database and with a real-world database. We adapt either the test set or the training set. Results show that training set adaptation achieves better results than test set adaptation, at the cost of a second training stage on the adapted data. Accuracy of data set adaptation is increased by 2% to 3% in absolute value over no adaptation.

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Cristina Oprean, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, and Chafic Mokbel "Handwritten word preprocessing for database adaptation", Proc. SPIE 8658, Document Recognition and Retrieval XX, 865808 (4 February 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2004312

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