Handwritten Address Interpretation: A Task of Many Pattern Recognition Problems

A gradation of pattern discrimination problems is encountered in interpreting handwritten postal addresses. There are several multiclass discrimination problems, including handwritten numeral recognition with 10 classes, alphanumeral recognition with 36 classes, and touching-digit pair recognition with 100 classes. Word recognition with a lexicon is a problem where the number of classes varies from a few to about a thousand. Some of the discrimination techniques, particularly those with few classes, lend themselves well to neural network classication, while others are better handled by Bayesian polynomial and nearest-neighbor methods. This paper describes each of the discrimination problems and the performances of each of the subsystems in a handwritten address interpretation system developed at CEDAR.

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