<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <article key="pdf/11267" mdate="2008-08-25 00:00:00"> <author>Hazem M. El-Bakry</author> <title>A New High Speed Neural Model for Fast Character Recognition Using Cross Correlation and Matrix Decomposition</title> <pages>2857 - 2876</pages> <year>2008</year> <volume>2</volume> <number>8</number> <journal>International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering</journal> <ee>https://publications.waset.org/pdf/11267</ee> <url>https://publications.waset.org/vol/20</url> <publisher>World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology</publisher> <abstract>Neural processors have shown good results for detecting a certain character in a given input matrix. In this paper, a new idead to speed up the operation of neural processors for character detection is presented. Such processors are designed based on cross correlation in the frequency domain between the input matrix and the weights of neural networks. This approach is developed to reduce the computation steps required by these faster neural networks for the searching process. The principle of divide and conquer strategy is applied through image decomposition. Each image is divided into small in size subimages and then each one is tested separately by using a single faster neural processor. Furthermore, faster character detection is obtained by using parallel processing techniques to test the resulting subimages at the same time using the same number of faster neural networks. In contrast to using only faster neural processors, the speed up ratio is increased with the size of the input image when using faster neural processors and image decomposition. Moreover, the problem of local subimage normalization in the frequency domain is solved. The effect of image normalization on the speed up ratio of character detection is discussed. Simulation results show that local subimage normalization through weight normalization is faster than subimage normalization in the spatial domain. The overall speed up ratio of the detection process is increased as the normalization of weights is done off line.</abstract> <index>Open Science Index 20, 2008</index> </article>