PaRM: A parallel relaxation machine for handwritten character recognition
This paper proposes a parallel relaxation machine, called a PaRM, for handwritten Japanese characters. The PaRM is composed of multiple relaxation units (RUs) that are implemented using FPGAs. From the results of performance evaluation, the PaRM can recognize 1000 characters per second with the accuracy of 99.4% and is 70 times faster than a 200MHz PentiumPro processor.
handwritten character recognition performance evaluation relaxation operation parallel architecture ring structure highly pipelined architecture