An Approach to Recognize Handwritten Hindi Characters Using Substantial Zernike Moments With Genetic Algorithm

An Approach to Recognize Handwritten Hindi Characters Using Substantial Zernike Moments With Genetic Algorithm

Ajay Indian, Karamjit Bhatia
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/IJCVIP.2021040105
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Abstract

A technique to recognize off-line handwritten Hindi character is suggested by employing Zernike complex moments like a tool to describe the characteristics of a character. Further, an algorithm for selecting the features is employed to identify the substantial image moments from the extracted moments, as the extracted moments may have some insignificant ones. Insignificant moments can increase the computational time and can also degrade the classification accuracy. Thus, the objectives of the study are twofold: (1) to find the important Zernike moments by employing the Genetic algorithm (GA) and (2) the classification of each character is performed using neural network. This way, the performance of the proposed technique is evaluated on two parameters (i.e., speed and recognition accuracy). Further, the efficacy of GA for selecting the moment features is assessed, and the efficacy of selected Zernike complex moments using GA is analyzed for handwritten Hindi characters. Here, the authors used a resilient backpropagation learning algorithm (RPROP) as a classification model.
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The subsequent section covers a short and concise literature review on the Zernike complex moment utilized as features for the recognition characters. It also provides a concise literature survey on the Genetic Algorithm adopted as a feature selection method.

Ghosh & Ghosh (2005) projected a novel scheme with the fusion-based evolutionary technique by utilizing matrix-based solution methods of GAs. Structural features have been utilized as a descriptor of handwritten characters of English script and recognition rates with Backpropagation Nural Network (BPNN) and Evolutionary Algorithm and Least Squares (EALS-BT) algorithm were found 86.4% and 95.6% respectively. Kimura et al. (2009) projected an approach utilizing GA to extract an appropriate group of features out of the given huge pool of features to enhance classification performance.

There are image processing problems which have been successfully resolved using the Zernike Complex Moments. Zernike Complex Moments are also found very suitable as a fundamental instrument to produce shape information of objects in the images, as Zernike Complex Moments hold rotational invariance property, which is very appropriate for off-line character classification/ character reconstruction as discussed in (Teh & Chin, 1988) and (Tripathy, 2010). A different Computer-aided Diagnosis (CADx) scheme to analyze breast masses was suggested (Tahmasbi et al., 2010, 2011). It was intended to enhance the CADx system’s efficacy and lower down False Negative Rate (FNR) through Zernike Complex Moments as a descriptor of shape and edge characteristics of medical images.

The competence of Zernike Complex Moments (ZM) in the development of the image classiðcation model was analyzed by Oluleye et al. (2014). A neuro-genetic intelligent scheme was designed by utilizing a probabilistic neural network (PNN) based classiðer. Geometric features and ZMs were utilized with a new fitness function to discover the best features for optimum recognition rate and attained 90.05% accuracy. Oluleye et al. (2014) further discussed the use of GA in selecting the appropriate features. Explicitly, a binary GA with a new fitness function was adopted to reduce dimensionality to enrich the efficacy of classifiers.

The usability of Zernike Complex Moments as a feature descriptor to recognize the Marathi script’s handwritten compound characters was discussed by Kale et al. (2014). In this study, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) were utilized as classification techniques and claimed accuracy of 98.37% and 95.82%, respectively. Shahamat & Pouyan (2015) projected a new procedure to classify subjects into two groups characterizing schizophrenia and control utilizing data of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Local Binary Patterns (LBP) technique was adopted in extracting the features. GA was employed for feature selection to reveal a feature set with more discrimination strength. Further, for feature selection, linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was employed to extract the features that maximize the ratio between inter-class and intra-class variability.

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