Template Matching for Marathi Handwritten Compound Character

Abstract

In the research of handwritten character recognition one difficult task is to recognize the handwritten compound characters of Marathi. This work focuses on an analysis of Template Matching approach that can be used to recognize Marathi handwritten compound characters. The template matching provides a more efficient matching, while training samples are fewer. In this paper, we assessed the performance of the template matching algorithm based on correlation, normalized crosscorrelation, the sum of squared differences.