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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 1247-1259 (November 2005)

Comparison of the Multi Layer Perceptron and the Nearest Neighbor Classifier for Handwritten Numeral Recognition

K. Roy+, C. Chaudhuri, M. Kundu, M. Nasipuri and D. K. Basu
 Computer Science and Engineering Department
Jadavpur University
Kolkata 700032, India
+C.V.P.R. Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata 700108, India

The work presents the results of an investigation conducted to compare the performances of the Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP) and the Nearest Neighbor (NN) classifier for handwritten numeral recognition problem. The comparison is drawn in terms of the recognition performance and the computational requirements of the individual classifiers. The results show that a two-layer perceptron performs comparably to a NN like standard pattern classifier in recognizing unconstrained handwritten numerals, while being computationally more cost effective. The work signifies the usefulness of the MLP as a standard pattern classifier for recognition of handwritten numerals with a large feature set of 96 features.

Keywords: artificial neural network, multi layer perceptron, pattern recognition, nearest neighbor classifier, learning, generalization, training

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Received March 13, 2003; revised August 11, 2003 & March 15, 2004; accepted April 29, 2004.
Communicated by Kuo-Chin Fan.