High Level Shape Representation in Printed Gujarati Character

Mukesh M. Goswami, Suman K. Mitra

2017

Abstract

This paper presents extraction and identification of the high-level stroke (HLS) from printed Gujarati characters. The HLS feature describes a character as a sequence of predefined high-level strokes. Such a high-level shape representation enables approximate shape similarity computation between characters and can easily be extended to word-level. The shape similarity based character and word matching have extensive application in word-spotting based document image retrieval and character classification. Therefore, the proposed features were tested on printed Gujarati character database consisting of 12000 samples from 42 different symbol classes. The classification is performed using k-nearest neighbor with shape similarity measure. Also, a shape similarity based printed Gujarati word matching experiment is reported on a small word image database and the initial result are encouraging.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Goswami M. and Mitra S. (2017). High Level Shape Representation in Printed Gujarati Character . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-222-6, pages 418-425. DOI: 10.5220/0006191104180425

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram17,
author={Mukesh M. Goswami and Suman K. Mitra},
title={High Level Shape Representation in Printed Gujarati Character},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,},
year={2017},
pages={418-425},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006191104180425},
isbn={978-989-758-222-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 1: ICPRAM,
TI - High Level Shape Representation in Printed Gujarati Character
SN - 978-989-758-222-6
AU - Goswami M.
AU - Mitra S.
PY - 2017
SP - 418
EP - 425
DO - 10.5220/0006191104180425