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JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Volume 20, Issue 3, Pages 227-260Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/JISYS.2011.013
Keywords
Word extraction; SRLSA; character segmentation; handwritten Bangla document image; CMATERdb
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- DST, Govt. of India
- PURSE (Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence) Program
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In this paper, a novel approach for word extraction and character segmentation from the handwritten Bangla document images is reported. At first, a modified Run Length Smoothing Algorithm (RLSA), called Spiral Run Length Smearing Algorithm (SRLSA), is applied for the extraction of words from the text lines of unconstrained handwritten Bangla document images. This technique has helped to overcome some of the drawbacks of standard horizontal and vertical RLSA techniques. SRLSA technique has been applied on the Bangla handwritten document image database CMATERdb 1.1.1 and the success rate of the word extraction is found to be 86.01%. In the second part of the work, we have presented a useful solution to the problem on how best word images of handwritten Bangla script can be segmented into constituent characters. Moreover, the technique can segment the words having discontinuity in Matra, a prominent feature of Bangla script. It also optimizes the trade-off between under/\over segmentation as Matra region and segmentation points are estimated more precisely. As a result, better word segmentation accuracy is achieved with minimal data loss. Here, a success rate of 92.48% is observed on a dataset of 750 handwritten Bangla words which is 3.35% higher than that of our earlier techniques.
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