Classification of run-length encoded binary data

In classification of binary featured data, distance computation is carried out by considering each feature. We represent the given binary data as run-length encoded data. This would lead to a compact or compressed representation of data. Further, we propose an algorithm to directly compute the Manhattan distance between two such binary encoded patterns. We show that classification of data in such compressed form would improve the computation time by a factor of 5 on large handwritten data. The scheme is useful in large data clustering and classification which depend on distance measures. (c) 2006 Pattern Recognition Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.