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A Simple and Effective Technique for Online Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition

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Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015

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Abstract

In this paper, we have proposed a simple but effective feature extraction technique following the distance-based features to recognize online handwritten isolated Bangla basic characters. In this approach, a character is divided into N number of segments and then distances are calculated among each other. These distance values are then used as features for recognition purpose. On evaluation of this feature set on 10,000 Bangla character samples (50-class character set) by various classifiers, the method yields reasonably good result with 98.20 % success rate.

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  1. Future Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India

    Shibaprasad Sen

  2. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Ram Sarkar

  3. West Bengal State University, Barasat, India

    Kaushik Roy

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  1. Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Swagatam Das

  2. Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    Tandra Pal

  3. National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    Samarjit Kar

  4. Deparment of CSE, Anil Neerukonda Ins. of Tech. & Sci., Vishakapatnam, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  5. Kalyani University, Nadia, West Bengal, India

    Jyotsna Kumar Mandal

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Sen, S., Sarkar, R., Roy, K. (2016). A Simple and Effective Technique for Online Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition. In: Das, S., Pal, T., Kar, S., Satapathy, S., Mandal, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA) 2015. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 404. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2695-6_18

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