Thien M. Ha and Horst Bunke,
Handwritten numeral recognition by perturbation method,
In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on
Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition,
Grand Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, pp. 97-106, December 1994.This paper presents a new approach to off-line handwritten numeral recognition. From the concept of perturbation due to writing habits and styles, we propose a recognition method which is able to account for a variety of distortions. We tested our method on totally unconstrained numerals from the CEDAR database and obtained 99.1% correct recognition rate, which is the highest rate ever reached on this database.