M. K. Jindal

Work place: Department of Computer Science & Applications, Panjab University Regional Centre, Muktsar, Punjab, India

E-mail: manishphd@rediffmail.com

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Research Interests: Pattern Recognition

Biography

Professor Manish Kumar Jindal received his Bachelors degree in science in 1996 and Post Graduate degree in Computer Applications from Punjabi University, Patiala, India in 1999. He received his PhD degree in computer science & engineering from Thapar University, Patiala, India in 2008. He is working as Associate Professor in Panjab University Regional Centre, Muktsar, Punjab, INDIA. His research interests include Character Recognition.

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Segmentation of Isolated and Touching Characters in Offline Handwritten Gurmukhi Script Recognition

By Munish Kumar M. K. Jindal R. K. Sharma

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2014.02.08, Pub. Date: 8 Jan. 2014

Segmentation of a word into characters is one of the important challenges in optical character recognition. This is even more challenging when we segment characters in an offline handwritten document. Touching characters make this problem more complex. In this paper, we have applied water reservoir based technique for identification and segmentation of touching characters in handwritten Gurmukhi words. Touching characters are segmented based on reservoir base area points. We could achieve 93.51% accuracy for character segmentation with this method. If the characters are neither broken nor overlapping, then this technique shall produce even better results.

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