Character Recognition Using Neural Network Learned by Artificial Bee Algorithm

Abstract

Character Recognition is the text recognition system that allows hard copies of written or printed text to be rendered into editable, soft copy versions. In this paper, work has been performed to recognize pattern using multilayer perceptron learning by Artificial Bee algorithm (ABC) that simulates the intelligent foraging behavior of a honey bee swarm. Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) trained with the standard back propagation (BP) algorithm normally utilizes computationally intensive training algorithms. One of the crucial problems with the BP algorithm is that it can sometimes yield the networks with suboptimal weights because of the presence of many local optima in the solutions space. The suggested method is to use ABC for learn the Neural Networks, to solve text character recognition problem, by update the Neural Networks weights. A comparison studies are made between ABC and BP methods in NN learning to specify which is better in solving character recognition problem.