A Method of Combining Multiple Experts for the Recognition of Unconstrained Handwritten Numerals

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 90-94

  Huang, Y S ^a   Suen, C Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

behavior knowledge space; combination of multiple classifiers; evidence aggregation; knowledge modeling; Unconstrained handwriting recognition

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA STRUCTURES; EXPERT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BEHAVIOR KNOWLEDGE SPACE; EVIDENCE AGGREGATION; KNOWLEDGE MODELING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITING RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0029230267     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.368145     Document Type: Article

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