User adaptive handwriting recognition by self-growing probabilistic decision-based neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1373-1384

  Fu, Hsin Chia ^a,b   Chang, Hung Yuan ^b   Xu, Yeong Yuh ^b   Pao, H T ^b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision based neural networks (DBNNs); Handwriting recognition; Self growing; Self growing probabilistic DBNN; Supervised learning; User adaptation (UA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012103866     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.883451     Document Type: Article

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