A preclassification method for handwritten Chinese character recognition via fuzzy rules and seart neural net

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 743-761

  Lee, Hahn Ming ^a   Lin, Chin Chou ^a   Chen, Jyh Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy rules; Handwritten Chinese character recognition; Membership functions; Preclassification; level cut

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006801940     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001498000427     Document Type: Article

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