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We present a novel preprocessing technique for handwritten numerals recognition, that relies on the extraction of multiscale features to characterize the classes. These features are obtained by means of different continuous wavelet transforms, which behave as scale-dependent bandpass filters, and give information on local orientation of the strokes. First a shape-preserving, smooth and smaller version of the digit is extracted. Second, a complementary feature vector is constructed, that captures certain properties of the digits, such as orientation, gradients and curvature at different scales. The accuracy with which the selected features describe the original digits is assessed with a neural network classifier of the multilayer perceptron (MLP) type. The proposed method gives satisfactory results, regarding the dimensionality reduction as well as the recognition rates on the testing sets of CENPARMI and MNIST databases; the recognition rate being 92.60 % for the CENPARMI data-base and 98.22 % for the MNIST database.
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Romero, D., Ruedin, A., Seijas, L. (2009). Wavelet-Based Feature Extraction for Handwritten Numerals. In: Foggia, P., Sansone, C., Vento, M. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2009. ICIAP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04146-4_41
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