Evaluation and synthesis of feature vectors for handwritten numeral recognition

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E79-D, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 436-442

  Kimura, Fumitaka ^a   Nishikawa, Shuji ^b   Wakabayashi, Tetsushi ^c   Miyaket, Yasuji ^a   Tsutsumida, Toshio ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Ministry of Posts and Telecommunication   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Feature selection; Handwritten numeral recognition; Zip code recognition

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SYNTHESIS; HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION; ZIP CODE RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030146085     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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