New Approach of Features Extraction for Numeral Recognition
Soukaina Benchaou, M’barek Nasri, Ouafae El Melhaoui · International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence · 2016
This paper proposes a new approach of features extraction based on structural and statistical techniques for handwritten, printed and isolated numeral recognition. The structural technique is inspired from the Freeman code, it consists first of contour detection and closing it by morphological operators. After that, the Freeman code was applied by extending its directions to 24-connectivity instead of 8-connectivity. Then, this technique is combined with the statistical method profile projection to determine the attribute vector of the particular numeral. Numeral recognition is carried out in this work through k-nearest neighbors and fuzzy min-max classification. The recognition rate obtained by the proposed system is improved indicating that the numeral extracted features contain more details.