Pre-processing before digit recognition with KNN classifier

Question

Right now I\'m trying to create digit recognition system using OpenCV. There are many articles and examples in WEB (and even on StackOverflow). I decided to use KNN classifier b

Answer 1

I realized my mistake - it wasn't connected with pre-processing at all (thanks to @DavidBrown and @John). I used handwritten dataset of digits instead of printed (capitalized). I didn't find such database in the web so I decided to create it by myself. I have uploaded my database to the Google Drive.

And here's how you can use it (train and classify):

int digitSize = 16;
//returns list of files in specific directory
static vector getListFiles(const string& dirPath)
{
    vector result;
    DIR *dir;
    struct dirent *ent;
    if ((dir = opendir(dirPath.c_str())) != NULL)
    {
        while ((ent = readdir (dir)) != NULL)
        {
            if (strcmp(ent->d_name, ".") != 0 && strcmp(ent->d_name, "..") != 0 )
            {
                result.push_back(ent->d_name);
            }
        }
        closedir(dir);
    }
    return result;
}

void DigitClassifier::train(const string& imagesPath)
{
    int num = 510;
    int size = digitSize * digitSize;
    Mat trainData = Mat(Size(size, num), CV_32FC1);
    Mat responces = Mat(Size(1, num), CV_32FC1);

    int counter = 0;
    for (int i=1; i<=9; i++)
    {
        char digit[2];
        sprintf(digit, "%d/", i);
        string digitPath(digit);
        digitPath = imagesPath + digitPath;
        vector images = getListFiles(digitPath);
        for (int j=0; j(counter*size+k) = mat.at(k);
            }
            responces.at(counter) = i;
            counter++;
        }
    }
    knn.train(trainData, responces);
}

int DigitClassifier::classify(const Mat& img) const
{
    Mat tmp = img.clone();

    resize(tmp, tmp, Size(digitSize, digitSize));

    tmp.convertTo(tmp, CV_32FC1);

    return knn.find_nearest(tmp.reshape(1, 1), 5);
}