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    STUDIA INFORMATICA - Issue no. 1 / 2010  
         
  Article:   HANDWRITTEN DIGITS RECOGNITION USING NEURAL COMPUTING.

Authors:  CĂLIN ENĂCHESCU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In this paper we present a method for the recognition of handwritten digits and a practical implementation of this method for real-time recognition. A theoretical framework for the neural networks used to classify the handwritten digits is also presented. The classification task is performed using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). CNN is a special type of multi-layer neural network, being trained with an optimized version of the back-propagation learning algorithm. CNN is designed to recognize visual patterns directly from pixel images with minimal preprocessing, being capable to recognize patterns with extreme variability (such as handwritten characters), and with robustness to distortions and simple geometric transformations. The main contributions of this paper are related to the original methods for increasing the efficiency of the learning algorithm by preprocessing the images before the learning process and a method for increasing the precision and performance for real-time applications, by removing the non useful information from the background. By combining these strategies we have obtained an accuracy of 96.76%, using as training set the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) database.

Key words and phrases: Convolutional neural networks, supervised learning, handwritten digits recognition.
  
         
     
         
         
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