Eighth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR'02)
Handprinted Hiragana Recognition Using Support Vector Machines
Ontario, Canada
August 06-August 08
ISBN: 0-7695-1692-0
This paper describes a method to improve the cumulative recognition rates of pattern recognition using Decision Directed Acyclic Graph (DDAG) based on support vector machines (SVM). Though the original DDAG has high level of performance and its execution speed is fast, it does not consider the so-called cumulative recognition rate. We construct DDAG which can incorporate the cumulative recognition rate. As a result of our experiment for the hand-printed Hiragana characters in JEITA-HP, the cumulative recognition rate is improved and its execution time is almost the same as the original DDAG and 30 times faster than Max Win Algorithm which is one of famous recognition methods using support vector machines for a multi-class problem.
Citation:
Ken-ichi Maruyama, Minoru Maruyama, Hidetoshi Miyao, Yasuaki Nakano, "Handprinted Hiragana Recognition Using Support Vector Machines," iwfhr, pp.55, Eighth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (IWFHR'02), 2002