Neural network architecture for recognition of upright and rotat

Details Neural network architecture for recognition of upright and rotat Neural network architecture for recognition of upright and rotat

1995-11-07

2000-08-08

Au, Amelia

Image analysis

Learning systems

Neural networks

382216, G06T 140

Patent

active

06101270&

ABSTRACT:
A neural network architecture is provided for optical character recognition from an input image in which the target character may be rotated in the image plane. The architecture includes hidden units whose inputs receive image information from portions of the image which are rotationally distributed. That is, the local link between input units and the hidden units is adequate for rotation of the character in the image. Therefore, regardless of the orientation of the image, it is right side up, or approximately so, with respect to one of the hidden units. The hidden units have corresponding inputs with corresponding weight factors, i.e., symmetric weight sharing. Thus, regardless of the orientation of the image, one of the hidden units will produce a high output value indicative of an upright character. Alternatively, a single hidden unit has groups of inputs, each group having a corresponding set of weight factors. The groups are coupled to input units for rotationally distributed portions of the image. Therefore, for any orientation of the image corresponding with one of the groups of inputs of the hidden unit, the hidden unit produces the same output value. In an preferred embodiment, feature information such as local contour direction information is provided to the input units. The feature information is provided with respect to slices of the image taken in different directions.

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