Title: A SVM Greek character recogniser

Authors: Francesco Camastra

Addresses: Department of Applied Science, University of Naples Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Isola C4 – 80143 Napoli, Italy

Abstract: This paper presents a handwritten Greek character recogniser based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). The recogniser is composed of two modules: the first one is a feature extractor, the second one, the classifier, is performed by means of SVMs. The recogniser, tested on a database of more than 22000 handwritten Greek characters, has shown satisfactory performances. SVMs compare notably better, in terms of recognition rates, with popular neural classifiers, such as Learning Vector Quantisation (LVQ) and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP).

Keywords: SVMs; support vector machines; LVQ; learning vector quantisation; MLP; multi-layer perceptron; Greek character recognition; feature extraction; classifiers.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIDSS.2008.025018

International Journal of Intelligent Defence Support Systems, 2008 Vol.1 No.4, pp.290 - 299

Published online: 09 May 2009 *

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