%0 Journal Article %T Identification of the initial rule-base of a multi-stroke fuzzy-based character recognition method with meta-heuristic techniques %A Tormási, Alex %A Kóczy, László T. %J Czasopismo Techniczne %V 2013 %R 10.4467/2353737XCT.14.051.3959 %N Automatyka Zeszyt 4-AC (12) 2013 %P 103-115 %K fuzzy systems, character recognition, metaheuristic optimization %@ 0011-4561 %D 2014 %U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/czasopismo-techniczne/artykul/identification-of-the-initial-rule-base-of-a-multi-stroke-fuzzy-based-character-recognition-method-with-meta-heuristic-techniques %X This paper summarizes the basic concept of the designed a fuzzy-based character recognition algorithm family and the results of the optimization of its rule-base with two various meta-heuristic methods, the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm and the bacterial evolutionary algorithm. The results are presented and compared with two other methods from literature after a short overview of the recognition algorithm.