A novel approach to separate handwritten connected digits
Reda Alhajj, Ashraf Elnagar · 2005
This paper presents a novel approach to separateconnected digits in handwritten numerals by employing twoagents in the process. The first agent decides oncandidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center ofthe deepest top-valley, if any. The second agent arguescandidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center ofthe highest bottom-hill, if any. Then the actual cut-point isdecided by negotiation, which is influenced by a degree ofconfidence in each candidate cut-point. Experimentscon-ducted so far are promising and successful as well asjustified employing multiple agents. The obtained results arevery encouraging with a success factor of 97.8%.