Multi-experts for Touching Digit String Recognition
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چکیده
84.6% of touching digit strings have only two digits touching, 12.3% have three digits touching, and 3.1% have more than three digits touching. We present a multiexperts approach to recognize touching digit pairs (TDP) and touching digit triples (TDT). We combine holistic and traditional segmentation methods. 25,686 TDP training samples and 2778 TDP testing samples collected from USPS mail are used in our experiment. Holistic method outperforms the traditional segmentation based methods. The multi-experts combination has the best performance, a correct rate of 91.1% on TDP.
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