Handwritten digit

recognition
NIHAL SINHA
RegNo.RA2011032030006
INTRODUCTION
 The subject of
“Handwritten digit
recognition” is of
great concern and
has many
applications in
various fields like
zip code
recognition.
 Handwritten
digit recognition

The statistical The semantic The voting

approach approach Algorithms
 Reasons for choosing statistical
approach

 No usage of large training database is

required.
 Low running time.
 Without resorting to neural-nets.
 Not many applications in the field of hand
written digit recognition are done by
statistical approach (only few articles deal
with statistical method).
 Statistical approach
one is searching for the statistical characteristics of
various digits, these characteristics could be very
simple, like:
 the ratio of black pixels to white pixels,

E.g. an image of the digit "1" will have relatively

fewer black pixels than an image of the digit "8"
though both are drawn to the same scale
 Conclusions
 70% success.
 Problematic pairs of digits have similar profile as
can be seen from results table; ‘4’ and ‘1’, ‘7’ and
‘1’, ‘6’ and ‘8’.

NOT Orientation/Rotation invariant.
 Writing styles matter (weird 7's or incomplete
zeros).
 Salt and pepper noise can throw off results.