Building a Compact MQDF Classifier by Sparse Coding and Vector Quantization Technique

  • Xiaohua Wei
  • , Shujing Lu
  • , Yue Lu

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Abstract

The modified quadratic discriminant function (MQDF) is a very popular handwritten Chinese character classifier thanks to its high performance with low computational complexity. However, it suffers from high memory requirement for the storage of its parameters. This paper proposes a compact MQDF classifier developed by integrating sparse coding and vector quantization (VQ) technique. To be specific, we use sparse coding to represent the parameters of MQDF in sparsity first, and then employ the VQ technique to further compress the sparse coding. The proposed method is evaluated by comparing the performance with three models, i.e., the original MQDF classifier, the compact MQDF classifier using the VQ technique, and the compact MQDF classifier using sparse coding. The effectiveness of our proposed approach has been confirmed and demonstrated by comparative experiments on ICDAR2013 competition dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages454-459
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538635865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2017
Event14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 9 Nov 201715 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Volume1
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Conference

Conference14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2017
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period9/11/1715/11/17

Keywords

  • Compact MQDF classifier
  • Sparse coding
  • Vector quantization technique

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