Robust recognition of degraded machine-printed characters using complementary similarity measure and error-correction learning

Norihiro Hagita; Minako Sawaki

doi:10.1117/12.205826

30 March 1995 Robust recognition of degraded machine-printed characters using complementary similarity measure and error-correction learning

Norihiro Hagita, Minako Sawaki

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Proceedings Volume 2422, Document Recognition II; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205826
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Most conventional methods in character recognition extract geometrical features such as stroke direction, connectivity of strokes, etc., and compare them with reference patterns in a stored dictionary. Unfortunately, geometrical features are easily degraded by blurs, stains and the graphical background designs used in Japanese newspaper headlines. This noise must be removed before recognition commences, but no preprocessing method is completely accurate. This paper proposes a method for recognizing degraded characters and characters printed on graphical background designs. This method is based on the binary image feature method and uses binary images as features. A new similarity measure, called the complementary similarity measure, is used as a discriminant function. It compares the similarity and dissimilarity of binary patterns with reference dictionary patterns. Experiments are conducted using the standard character database ETL-2 which consists of machine-printed Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, alphanumeric, an special characters. The results show that this method is much more robust against noise than the conventional geometrical feature method. It also achieves high recognition rates of over 92% for characters with textured foregrounds, over 98% for characters with textured backgrounds, over 98% for outline fonts, and over 99% for reverse contrast characters.

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Norihiro Hagita and Minako Sawaki "Robust recognition of degraded machine-printed characters using complementary similarity measure and error-correction learning", Proc. SPIE 2422, Document Recognition II, (30 March 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205826

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