Recognition of degraded machine-printed characters using a complementary similarity measure and error-correction learning

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E79-D, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 491-497

  Sawaki, Minako ^a   Hagita, Norihiro ^a  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Error correction learning; Fontstyle recognition; Noise model; Similarity measure

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR CORRECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

COMPLEMENTARY SIMILARITY MEASURE; ERROR CORRECTION LEARNING; FONTSTYLE RECOGNITION; GRAPHICAL DESIGN; NOISE MODEL;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030149217     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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