Feature Extraction Techniques for Marathi Character Classification using Neural Networks Models

Hand written Marathi Character Recognition is challenges to the researchers due to the complex structure. This paper presents a novel approach for recognition of unconstrained handwritten Marathi characters. The recognition is carried out using multiple feature extraction methods and classification scheme. The initial stages of feature extraction are based upon the pixel value features and the classification of the characters is done according to the structural parameters into 44 classes. The final stage of feature extraction makes use of the zoning features. First Pixel values are used as features and these values are further modified as another set of features. All these features are then applied to neural network for recognition. A separate neural network is built for each type of feature. The average recognition rate is found to be 67.96% , 82.67%,63,46% and 76.46% respectively for feed forward , radial basis , elman and pattern recognition neural networks for handwritten marathi characters

Performance analysis of Handwritten Devnagari Character Recognition using Feed Forward , Radial Basis , Elman Back Propagation, and Pattern Recognition Neural Network Model Using Different Feature Extraction Methods

This paper describes the performance analysis for the four types of neural network with different feature extraction methods for character recognition of hand written devnagari alphabets. We have implemented four types of networks i.e. Feed forward , Radial basis, Elman back propagation and Pattern recognition neural network using three different types of feature extraction methods i.e. pixel value, histogram and blocks mean for each network. These algorithms have been performed better than the conventional approaches of neural network for pattern recognition. It has been analyzed that the Radial Basis neural network performs better compared to other types of networks

Review on Optical Character Recognition of Devanagari Script Using Neural Network

During the last decades lot of research work has been done in the field of character recognition on various scripts in various languages. In India peoples are used to speak national language Hindi and spoken by more than 500 million people. Many languages in India, such as Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit has uses Devanagari as its base script .As compared to English character; Indian script (Devanagri) characters are complicated for recognition. Devnagri script is the basis for many Indian script including Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Kashmiri, and so on. In this paper we present a review of research work that has been done in the field of character recognition in Devanagari script in past