Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-5-2018
Abstract
Classification techniques for images of handwritten characters are susceptible to noise. Quadtrees can be an efficient representation for learning from sparse features. In this paper, we improve the effectiveness of probabilistic quadtrees by using a pixel level classifier to extract the character pixels and remove noise from handwritten character images. The pixel level denoiser (a deep belief network) uses the map responses obtained from a pretrained CNN as features for reconstructing the characters eliminating noise. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by reconstructing and classifying a noisy version of handwritten Bangla Numeral and Basic Character datasets.
Publication Source (Journal or Book title)
Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Icfhr
First Page
511
Last Page
516
Recommended Citation
Karki, M., Liu, Q., DiBiano, R., Basu, S., & Mukhopadhyay, S. (2018). Pixel-level reconstruction and classification for noisy handwritten bangla characters. Proceedings of International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition Icfhr, 2018-August, 511-516. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICFHR-2018.2018.00095