A Novel Approach to Separate Handwritten Connected Digits

This paper presents a novel approach to separate connected digits in handwritten numerals by employing two agents in the process. The first agent decides on candidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center of the deepest top-valley, if any. The second agent argues candidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center of the highest bottom-hill, if any. Then the actual cut-point is decided by negotiation, which is influenced by a degree of confidence in each candidate cut-point. Experiments conducted so far are promising and successful as well as justified employing multiple agents. The obtained results are very encouraging with a success factor of 97.8%.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDAR
• Authors: Reda Alhajj, Ashraf Elnagar
• Keywords: Agent Argues Candidate, Candidate Cut-point, Closest Feature-point, Document Analysis, ICDAR 2003