DATA PREPROCESSING AND RE KERNEL CLUSTERING FOR LETTER

Many classifiers and methods are proposed to deal with letter recognition problem. Among them, clustering is a widely used method. But only one time for clustering is not adequately. Here, we adopt data preprocessing and a re kernel clustering method to tackle the letter recognition problem. In order to validate effectiveness and efficiency of proposed method, we introduce re kernel clustering into Kernel Nearest Neighbor classification(KNN), Radial Basis Function Neural Network(RBFNN), and Support Vector Machine(SVM). Furthermore, we compare the difference between re kernel clustering and one time kernel clustering which is denoted as kernel clustering for short. Experimental results validate that re kernel clustering forms fewer and more feasible kernels and attain higher classification accuracy.