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Segmentation of Bengali Handwritten Conjunct Characters Through Structural Disintegration

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Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA 2017)

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Substantial size of convoluted conjunct characters in Bengali language makes the recognition process burdensome. In this paper, we propose a structural disintegration based segmentation technique that fragments the conjunct characters into discernible shapes for better recognition accuracy. We use a set of structure based segmentation rules that bifurcates the characters into discernible shape components. The bifurcation is done by finding the touching region where two basic shapes coincide to form a conjunct character. The proposed method has been tested on a data set of Bengali handwritten conjunct characters efficiently. In future, we will continue our work to incorporate it as a prominent preprocessing step for Bengali optical character recognition system.

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    Rahul Pramanik & Soumen Bag

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

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    Paramartha Dutta

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    Somnath Mukhopadhyay

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Pramanik, R., Bag, S. (2017). Segmentation of Bengali Handwritten Conjunct Characters Through Structural Disintegration. In: Mandal, J., Dutta, P., Mukhopadhyay, S. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics. CICBA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 776. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6430-2_23

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