Feature vectors for pattern recognition

[tanya05]

I am doing a project in pattern recognition. My field of application is handwritten character recognition. I dont have a background of image processing. Can someone please tell me where to find a database of feature vectors for this application? I am more inclined towards features of handwritten digits. I have to implement my code in MATLAB, so a 2D representation of feature vectors will be preferred.

I need to start my project asap. Any suggestion will be appreciated.

 

[klystron]

Will this document help

 

[tanya05]

@klystron

This document is very informative for handwritten character recognition. However, in my project I mainly need to focus on the pattern recognition part. That is why I need any available database of features of handwritten characters. Or any matlab code of feature extraction from images. Any suggestions?

 

[klystron]

Will this help you A Real-time License Plate Recognition (LPR) System

 

[tanya05]

No, this is not related much to my project.

 

[klystron]

How do you read your inputs ?

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Will this be of any value http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~fwood/Teaching/W4240_Fall2010/Lectures/introduction/main.pdf

 

[tanya05]

In case I find a code which can extract features, I will use image files as input. I do not need to measure any input. My main goal is character recognition, I do not need to go into the details of feature extraction. I just need features of handwritten characters on which i can apply my code of character recognition.