Off-Line Hand Written Thai Character Recognition using Ant-Miner Algorithm

Much research into handwritten Thai character recognition have been proposed, such as comparing heads of characters, Fuzzy logic and structure trees, etc. This paper presents a system of handwritten Thai character recognition, which is based on the Ant-minor algorithm (data mining based on Ant colony optimization). Zoning is initially used to determine each character. Then three distinct features (also called attributes) of each character in each zone are extracted. The attributes are Head zone, End point, and Feature code. All attributes are used for construct the classification rules by an Ant-miner algorithm in order to classify 112 Thai characters. For this experiment, the Ant-miner algorithm is adapted, with a small change to increase the recognition rate. The result of this experiment is a 97% recognition rate of the training set (11200 characters) and 82.7% recognition rate of unseen data test (22400 characters).

Authors:

• P. Phokharatkul
• K. Sankhuangaw
• S. Somkuarnpanit
• S. Phaiboon
• C. Kimpan

Keywords:

• Hand written
• Thai character recognition
• Ant-mineralgorithm
• distinct feature.

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