Chinese character classification using an adaptive resonance network

Abstract

The ability to see through noise and distortion to a pattern is vital to the task of character recognition. Artificial neural networks exhibit such a capability as they are able to generalize automatically once they are trained. An application of an artificial neural network model, the Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART), to Chinese character classification is described. The ART classifier is used to classify 3755 Chinese characters. Our experimental results indicate that the classifier is able to achieve a high classification rate. © 1992.