Adaptive Recognition Procedure: Recognition of Hand Written Chinese Characters

The system to recognize the Chinese characters written in a firm hand is designed. With the idea that the adaptive observations play the important role in recognizing complicated patterns, this paper shows one of the attempts to make a machine have such a function. The system proposed here can be characterized with two points of new approaches. The first is a hierarchical structure that is introduced into the representation of Chinese characters. The second is an adaptive function of the recognizer, which makes possible to analyze and recognize Chinese characters spoiled in a topological sense. Owing to the adaptive function realized by employing the concept of a provisional recognition, the most adequate manner of observations for each object can be taken at the stage of measurement. The details ot the preceding characteristics and the concrete description of the system possessing these characteristics are shown. Finally, the ability of the proposed system is discussed on the whole