Title :
The use of eigenpictures for optical character recognition
Author :
Muller, Neil ; Herbst, Ben
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Math., Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa
Abstract :
We show that the ideas behind the eigenface technique can be easily extended to the OCR problem by using multiple image classes. In addition, we also describe a modification to the standard Euclidean distance measure used for recognition which gives very good results in this context
Keywords :
covariance matrices; eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; image classification; optical character recognition; eigenpictures; multiple image classes; optical character recognition; Africa; Character recognition; Covariance matrix; Face recognition; Identity-based encryption; Image databases; Mathematics; Measurement standards; Optical character recognition software; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings. Fourteenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brisbane, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8512-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1998.711892
