Unconstrained handwritten numeral recognition based on radial basis competitive and cooperative networks with spatio-temporal feature representation

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 455-474

  Lee, Sukhan ^a,b   Pan, Jack Chien Jan ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c Citicorp TTI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VECTORS;

HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION; MULTIEXPERT COMBINATION METHODS; MULTIRESOLUTION FEATURE POINT SEGMENTATION METHOD; MULTISTAGE CLASSIFICATION METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL REPRESENTATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0030104656     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.485680     Document Type: Article

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