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PATTERN RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS
INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTION
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PATTERN RECOGNITION USING NEURAL NETWORKS
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Brief outline of the project
This project is aimed at developing software which will be helpful in
recognizing characters of English language. This project is restricted to
English characters and numerals only. It is also helpful in recognizing special
characters. It can be further developed to recognize the characters of different
languages. It engulfs the concept of neural network.
One of the primary means by which computers are endowed with
humanlike abilities is through the use of a neural network. Neural networks
are particularly useful for solving problems that cannot be expressed as a
series of steps, such as recognizing patterns, classifying them into groups,
series prediction and data mining.
Pattern recognition is perhaps the most common use of neural networks.
The neural network is presented a pattern, this could be an image and hand
written data. The neural network then attempts to determine if the input data
matches a pattern that the neural network has memorized.
A neural network trained for classification is designed to take input
samples and classify them into groups. These groups may be fuzzy, without
clearly defined boundaries. This project concerns detecting free handwritten
characters.
1.2 Organization of rest of the report
The report is composed of eight chapters. The report is organized in such
a way that it is easy for even a person with little computer knowledge to
understand what the project is all about.
We shall start the documentation with literature survey that specifies the
basic definitions, terms, goals, supporting theories, applications, etc.
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The third chapter is about the requirement specifications. This chapter
defines the purpose and scope of the project. It also gives a general
description, functional and external requirements and design constraints of
the system.
The chapter four discusses the system design. Data flow diagrams and
structure charts for all the major modules being used
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