Handwriting recognition - The last frontiers

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1-10

  Suen, Ching Y ^a   Kim, Jinho ^b   Kim, Kyekyung ^c   Xu, Qizhi ^a   Lam, Louisa ^c  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Kyungil University   (South Korea)

^c THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CURSIVE SCRIPT; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; STATE OF THE ART;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0002388154     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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