Online Handwriting Recognition of Tamil Script Using Fractal Geometry

Kunwar, Rituraj and Ramakrishnan, AG (2011) Online Handwriting Recognition of Tamil Script Using Fractal Geometry. In: 2011 International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 18-21 Sept. 2011, Beijing.

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Abstract

We present a fractal coding method to recognize online handwritten Tamil characters and propose a novel technique to increase the efficiency in terms of time while coding and decoding. This technique exploits the redundancy in data, thereby achieving better compression and usage of lesser memory. It also reduces the encoding time and causes little distortion during reconstruction. Experiments have been conducted to use these fractal codes to classify the online handwritten Tamil characters from the IWFHR 2006 competition dataset. In one approach, we use fractal coding and decoding process. A recognition accuracy of 90% has been achieved by using DTW for distortion evaluation during classification and encoding processes as compared to 78% using nearest neighbor classifier. In other experiments, we use the fractal code, fractal dimensions and features derived from fractal codes as features in separate classifiers. While the fractal code is successful as a feature, the other two features are not able to capture the wide within-class variations.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Fractal geometry;Online handwritten character recognition; Online handwriting recognition;Fractal coding;Tamil character recognition;Tamil handwriting recognition
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	27 Dec 2011 09:07
Last Modified:	27 Dec 2011 09:07
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/42913

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