Comparison of SVM kernel effect on online handwriting recognition: A case study with kannada script

Abstract

Proposed research work is aimed at investigating the issues specific to online Kannada handwriting recognition and design an efficient writer independent Online Handwriting recognizer. The proposed system accepts continuous Kannada online handwriting from pen tablet and produces recognized Kannada text as the system output. System comprises of pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and character recognition units. SVM classifier is implemented to test its efficiency with the Kannada handwritten characters. The recognition rates are analyzed for different SVM kernels.