Character Recognition Example (III):Training a Simple NN for classification

1. Read the image
I = imread('sample.bmp');

2. Image Preprocessing
This cell of codes will extract all the components (objects) as descript in section II.

img = edu_imgpreprocess(I);
for cnt = 1:50
bw2 = edu_imgcrop(img{cnt});
charvec = edu_imgresize(bw2);
out(:,cnt) = charvec;
end

3. Creating Vectors data for the Neural Network (objects)
These few line of codes creates training vector and testing vector for the neural network. This is to match the input accepted by the neural network function. The front 4 rows will be used to train the network, while the last row will be used to evaluate the performance of the network. (Please refer to part I and II for the dataset)

P = out(:,1:40);
T = [eye(10) eye(10) eye(10) eye(10)];
Ptest = out(:,41:50);

4. Creating and training of the Neural Network
Create and Train NN. The "edu_createnn" is a function file to create and train the network by accepting the training-target datasets

net = edu_createnn(P,T);

TRAINGDX, Epoch 0/5000, SSE 100.603/0.1, Gradient 46.9458/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 20/5000, SSE 38.3704/0.1, Gradient 1.1137/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 40/5000, SSE 39.4562/0.1, Gradient 0.485735/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 60/5000, SSE 39.5979/0.1, Gradient 0.387782/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 80/5000, SSE 39.6081/0.1, Gradient 0.387929/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 100/5000, SSE 39.5559/0.1, Gradient 0.445316/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 120/5000, SSE 39.2765/0.1, Gradient 0.758668/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 140/5000, SSE 35.941/0.1, Gradient 1.34484/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 160/5000, SSE 23.9786/0.1, Gradient 2.73872/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 180/5000, SSE 1.57322/0.1, Gradient 0.898383/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Epoch 196/5000, SSE 0.0909575/0.1, Gradient 0.0769913/1e-006
TRAINGDX, Performance goal met.

5. Testing the Neural Network
Simulate the testing dataset

[a,b]=max(sim(net,Ptest));
disp(b);

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Do note that there might be some misclassifications on the simulated result with different training properties. The accuracy could be improved by better features extraction techniques as well as the selection of NN's properties.

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