Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: An pproach to recognize handwritten bengali numerals for postal automation

A recognition approach for handwritten Bengali numerals and its application for Bangladesh Postal system are presented in this paper. The approach consists of preprocessing, feature extraction and recognition. Using the canny edge detector the top left corner of the post-code box has been detected and the four handwritten numeral images have been segmented. Each image then goes through the steps of normalization, filtering and thinning. Kirsch mask has been used to get the edges through the horizontal, vertical, right and left diagonal. Principal component analysis (PCA) has been used for dimension reduction as the final feature vector consists of the four directional feature vector along with the normalized image. Then the output of the PCA is passed to a trained Support Vector Machine (SVM) to determine which class the input belongs to. Experiments demonstrate that the average recognition rate, error rate and reliability achieved by the proposed system are 92.5%, 7.5% and 92.5% respectively. Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles "An Approach to Recognize Handwritten Bengali Numerals for Postal Automation" by Md. Saidur Rahman, G. M. Atiqur Rahaman, Asif Ahmed and G. M. Salahuddin in the Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2008, 25-27 December, 2008, Khulna, Bangladesh) After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. Due to the nature of this violation, reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper, and future references should be made to the following article: "Handwritten Bangla Numeral Recognition System and Its Application to Postal Automation" by YingWen,Yue Lu, Pengfei Shi in Pattern Recognition (Jan 2007, vol. 40, pp.99-107) Elsevier