Accession Number:

AD0694487

Title:

CLASSIFICATION OF MIXED-FONT ALPHABETICS BY CHARACTERISTIC LOCI.

Descriptive Note:

Physical and mathematical sciences research papers, no. 392,

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH LABS L G HANSCOM FIELD MASS

Personal Author(s):

• Glucksman,Herbert A.

Report Date:

1969-08-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

An alphabetic pattern is reduced to a vector of many dimensions pattern features, each of which is the area of a locus region in the patterns background. Each locus is the set of the points of the background that share, in a certain sense, a particular view of the patterns line. A corrective learning process, executed by computer, linearly separates the vector space into alphabetic categories so that every pattern, of a large selection of patterns of nine different fonts, is found in its proper category, without regard for font and despite some noise. When the coefficients of the separating hyperplanes are then used to classify patterns not included in the learning sample, the error rate decreases sharply as the learning sample is increased. An implementation is described that would associate a digital computer with a special device that would include a matrix of simple, identical, intercommunicating microcells capable of determining the patterns features. A method is described for designing by computer a binary decision tree that, using the coefficients determined by the learning process, would speed up the classification of patterns. Author

Descriptors:

• (*LEARNING MACHINES
• PATTERN RECOGNITION)
• (*PATTERN RECOGNITION
• CLASSIFICATION)
• CODING
• COMPUTER LOGIC
• LOGIC CIRCUITS
• DECISION THEORY
• VECTOR SPACES
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
• INPUT OUTPUT DEVICES
• DIGITAL COMPUTERS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Computer Hardware
• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE