Handwritten Bangla City Name Recognition Using Shape-Context Feature

  • Samanway Sahoo
  • Subham Kumar Nandi
  • Sourav Barua
  • Pallavi
  • Samir Malakar
  • Ram Sarkar
Conference paper
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Part of the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing book series (AISC, volume 695)

Abstract

A segmentation-free approach is proposed to recognize the handwritten city names written in Bangla script. Initially, all the word images are converted into virtually single connected component following the refraction properties of light in order to design a unique shape-context of the same. Then a 64-dimensional feature vector is estimated from the said shape-context of each word image. A database containing 150 samples of 50 most popular city names of West Bengal, a state of India is prepared for evaluating the present method. Performance of this feature vector is also compared with some recently published feature vectors, and it is observed that the newly designed feature vector has outperformed the others.

Keywords

Shape-context feature Handwritten word recognition City name recognition Bangla script 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Samanway Sahoo
    • 1
  • Subham Kumar Nandi
    • 1
  • Sourav Barua
    • 1
  • Pallavi
    • 1
  • Samir Malakar
    • 2
  • Ram Sarkar
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Computer Science and TechnologyIndian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, ShibpurShibpurIndia
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceAsutosh CollegeKolkataIndia
  3. 3.Department of Computer Science and EngineeringJadavpur UniversityKolkataIndia

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