The process of pattern recognition pose quiets a lot of challenges especially in recognizing hand-written scripts of different languages in India, in spite of several advancement in technologies pertaining to optical character recognition (OCR). Handwriting continues to persist as means of documenting information for day today life especially in rural areas. There exist a need to develop handwritten character recognition system for its applications in post offices, bank cheque processing, handwritten document processing etc,. In this paper a handwritten Kannada alphabets recognition using neuro-genetic hybrid system is proposed which makes use of wavelet transform coefficients as feature vectors. Subset of these feature vectors is selected using genetic algorithm and is given to neural network for classification. Higher degree of accuracy in results has been obtained with the implementation of this approach on a comprehensive database compared to conventional systems.

Pattern Recognition, OCR, Wavelets Transformation, Kannada alphabets, Genrtic algorithms, Neural Networks

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