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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Novel Handwritten Letter Recognizer Using Enhanced Evolutionary Neural Network
Authors : Fariborz Mahmoudi, Mohsen Mirzashaeri, Ehsan Shahamatnia, Saed Faridnia
Published in: Forensics in Telecommunications, Information and Multimedia
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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This paper introduces a novel design for handwritten letter recognition by employing a hybrid back-propagation neural network with an enhanced evolutionary algorithm. Feeding the neural network consists of a new approach which is invariant to translation, rotation, and scaling of input letters. Evolutionary algorithm is used for the global search of the search space and the back-propagation algorithm is used for the local search. The results have been computed by implementing this approach for recognizing 26 English capital letters in the handwritings of different people. The computational results show that the neural network reaches very satisfying results with relatively scarce input data and a promising performance improvement in convergence of the hybrid evolutionary back-propagation algorithms is exhibited.