Handwritten Numeral Recognition Based on Fractional Eigenfeatures

Feature extraction is an important part in handwritten numeral recognition. Efficient and robust feature is a key to improving recognition rate and efficiency. This paper adopts fractional Fourier transform and principal component analysis to extract robust and compact features called fractional eigenafeatures. In classification, five kernel-based nonlinear classifiers, Parzen and robust Parzen classifiers, radial basis function classifier, support vector classifier, and kernel-based nonlinear representor are applied and compared. Experimental results show the effects and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.