GRAPHICAL-DATA-PROCESSING RESEARCH STUDY AND EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION.

Abstract

The report describes work in progress in each of the stages of the analysis of graphical data (specifically, the recognition of hand-printed FORTRAN test). These stages are: data preparation; input of data to the analysis system; preprocessing; classification; and contextual analysis. A preprocessing and classification method adapted from Jon K. Clemens of MIT was programmed and tested on characters from the data base. The best results were obtained for alphabetic characters only: 58% correct, 23% errors, and 19% rejects. The beginnings of work, directed at improving the recognition rate through the use of contextual relations among individually classified characters, are described. A small study showing that the recognition rate by humans of characters without context is on the order of 99%, and that the quantization performed during input to the system reduces this rate only slightly. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0641647

Entities

People

  • J. H. Munson
  • R. O. Duda

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Data Processing
  • Data Reduction
  • Databases
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Personality
  • Preprocessing
  • Recognition

Readers

  • Computer Programming and Software Development.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.