Multiple classifier fusion using the fuzzy integral.

Fusion of multiple classifier decisions is a powerful method for increasing classification rates in difficult pattern recognition problems. Researchers have found that in many applications it is better to fuse multiple relatively simple classifiers than to build a single sophisticated classifier to achieve better recognition rates. Ideally, the combination function should take advantage of the strengths of individual classifiers and of all possible subsets of classifiers, avoid their weaknesses, and use all the dynamically available knowledge about the inputs, the outputs, the classes, and the classifiers. Automatic reading of handwritten numerals is a difficult problem because of the great variations involved in the shape of the characters. In this thesis an evidence fusion technique, based on the notion of fuzzy integral is utilized to combine the results of different classifiers and realize a robust algorithm for high accuracy handwritten numeral recognition. Both source relevance as well as source evidence are utilized to achieve significant enhancements. The most important advantage of this system is that not only is the evidence combined but that the relative importance of the different sources is also considered. Various conventional and fuzzy integral based fusion methods are explained in detail and experimental results obtained are compared. A method is introduced to improve the fuzzy densities of the classifiers which would improve the fusion results. In this method we use the correction factors obtained from the performance matrices to alter the initial fuzzy densities. Experiments on handwritten numeral recognition are described and compared. These experiments show that very low error rates can be achieved by fusing several low performance classifiers.Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1999 .B45. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 39-02, page: 0558. Adviser: M. Ahmadi. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1999

Recognition of off-line arabic handwritten dates and numeral strings

In this thesis, we present an automatic recognition system for CENPARMI off-line Arabic handwritten dates collected from Arabic Nationalities. This system consists of modules that segment and recognize an Arabic handwritten date image. First, in the segmentation module, the system explicitly segments a date image into a sequence of basic constituents or segments. As a part of this module, a special sub-module was developed to over-segment any constituent that is a candidate for a touching pair. The proposed touching pair segmentation submodule has been tested on three different datasets of handwritten numeral touching pairs: The CENPARMI Arabic [6], Urdu, and Dari [24] datasets. The final recognition rates of 92.22%, 90.43%, and 86.10% were achieved for Arabic, Urdu and Dari, respectively. Afterwards, the segments are preprocessed and sent to the classification module. In this stage, feature vectors are extracted and then recognized by an isolated numeral classifier. This recognition system has been tested in five different isolated numeral databases: The CENPARMI Arabic [6], Urdu, Dari [24], Farsi, and Pashto databases with overall recognition rates of 97.29% 97.75%, 97.75%, 97.95% and 98.36%, respectively. Finally, a date post processing module is developed to improve the recognition results. This post processing module is used in two different stages. First, in the date stage, to verify that the segmentation/recognition output represents a valid date image and it chooses the best date format to be assigned to this image. Second, in the sub-field stage, to evaluate the values for the date three parts: day, month and year. Experiments on two different databases of Arabic handwritten dates: CENPARMI Arabic database [6] and the CENPARMI Arabic Bank Cheques database [7], show encouraging results with overall recognition rates of 85.05% and 66.49, respectively

Feature Extraction Methods for Character Recognition

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