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On-line handwritten character recognition by a hybrid method based on neural networks and pattern matching

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A hybrid system is developed for on-line recognition of hand-written Korean characters. Each syllable consists of several Korean alphabets and is written in a rectangular box to result in a 2-dimensional compositions of alphabets. Although only 24 alphabets exist, the number of syllables easily exceeds 3000. Therefore, instead of the syllables, the 24 alphabets are used as basic recognition unit, which causes difficult segmentation and recognition problems. Each Korean alphabet has at most 4 strokes, and 4 neural networks are trained separately for alphabets with different number of strokes. To improve the recognition preformance, after neural network classifications, classical pattern matching is also applied to check validity of the decisions made by the neural network classifiers. The hybrid systems is robust on distortion and rotation of the characters.

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Cho, JW., Lee, SY., Park, C.H. (1995). On-line handwritten character recognition by a hybrid method based on neural networks and pattern matching. In: Mira, J., Sandoval, F. (eds) From Natural to Artificial Neural Computation. IWANN 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 930. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59497-3_269

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