Research on Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Based on BP Neural Network

The application of pattern recognition technology enables us to solve various human-computer interaction problems that were difficult to solve before.Handwritten Chinese character recognition,as a hot research object in image pattern recognition,has many applications in people’s daily life,and more and more scholars are beginning to study off-line handwritten Chinese character recognition.This paper mainly studies the recognition of handwritten Chinese characters by BP(Back Propagation)neural network.Establish a handwritten Chinese character recognition model based on BP neural network,and then verify the accuracy and feasibility of the neural network through GUI(Graphical User Interface)model established by Matlab.This paper mainly includes the following aspects:Firstly,the preprocessing process of handwritten Chinese character recognition in this paper is analyzed.Among them,image preprocessing mainly includes six processes:graying,binarization,smoothing and denoising,character segmentation,histogram equalization and normalization.Secondly,through the comparative selection of feature extraction methods for handwritten Chinese characters,and through the comparative analysis of the results of three different feature extraction methods,the most suitable feature extraction method for this paper is found.Finally,it is the application of BP neural network in handwritten Chinese character recognition.The establishment,training process and parameter selection of BP neural network are described in detail.The simulation software platform chosen in this paper is Matlab,and the sample images are used to train BP neural network to verify the feasibility of Chinese character recognition.Design the GUI interface of human-computer interaction based on Matlab,show the process and results of handwritten Chinese character recognition,and analyze the experimental results.

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