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Distance Based Edge Linking (DEL) for Character Recognition

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This article proposes an minimum distance based edge linking algorithms for handwritten character images. Improvement of performance for machine recognition is challenging task due to noise and degraded input images. In the proposed system we enhance the recognition rate of object reconstruction for broken edges by using edge linking. Such edges of objects are reconstructed by using novel Distance based Edge Linking (DEL) approach. Developed new benchmark approach is fill the gaps between nearest edge segment of Binary image map (BIM). We obtain state-of-art performance of proposed system on character recognition (CR) using two datasets MNIST and ISI.

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  1. Solapur University, Solapur, 413255, MH, India

    Parshuram M. Kamble & Ravindra S. Hegadi

  2. Institute of Information Technology, Dharwad, Hubli, India

    Rajendra S. Hegadi

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA

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  2. Solapur University, Solapur, India

    Ravindra S. Hegadi

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Kamble, P.M., Hegadi, R.S., Hegadi, R.S. (2019). Distance Based Edge Linking (DEL) for Character Recognition. In: Santosh, K., Hegadi, R. (eds) Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. RTIP2R 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1037. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9187-3_23

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