Exploration of Improved Methodology for Character Image Recognition of Two Popular Indian Scripts using Gabor Feature with Hidden Markov Model

Handwritten character recognition plays an important role in the modern world. It can solve more complex problems and make the human's job easier. The present work portrays a novel approach in recognizing handwritten cursive character using Hidden Markov Model (HMM) . The method exploits the HMM formalism to capture the dynamics of input patterns, by applying a Gabor filter to a character image, observation feature vector is obtained, and used to form feature vectors for recognition. The HMM model is proposed to recognize a character image. All the experiments are conducted by using the Matlab tool kit.