International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 84 - Number 2 |
Year of Publication: 2013 |
Authors: V. C. Bharathi, M. Kalaiselvi Geetha |
10.5120/14545-2644 |
V. C. Bharathi, M. Kalaiselvi Geetha . Segregated Handwritten Character Recognition using GLCM features. International Journal of Computer Applications. 84, 2 ( December 2013), 1-7. DOI=10.5120/14545-2644
Handwritten document recognition is an area of pattern recognition that has been showing impressive performance in the machine printed text. Handwritten document recognition is an intricate task to various writing styles of individual person. The system first identifies the contour in a handwritten document for segmentation and features are extracted from the segmented character. This paper uses GLCM(Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix) for character recognition. Features of a character has been computed based on calculating the pairs of pixel with specific values and specified spatial relationship occurrence in an image. First order and second order textures are used to measure the intensity of the original pixels. Data were collected from different persons, and the system is trained using SVM with various writing styles. The proposed system achieves a maximum recognition accuracy of 95. 2% with training and testing data using GLCM as features and SVM with RBF kernel function.