Methods of Combining Multiple Classifiers and Their Applications to Handwriting Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 418-435

  Xu, Lei ^a   Krzyżak, Adam ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY AND ANALYSIS; MAIL HANDLING; PROBABILITY - RANDOM PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; VARIOUS DISTANCE CLASSIFIER; VOTING PRINCIPLE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0026860706     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.155943     Document Type: Article

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