Neural network positioning and classification of handwritten characters

Neural Networks

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 685-693

  Shustorovich, Alexander ^a   Thrasher, Christopher W ^b  

^a EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Character recognition; Feature extraction; Gabor wavelets; Neural networks; Positioning; Segmentation; Subspace projection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ALPHANUMERIC HANDPRINT MODULE; GABOR PROJECTIONS; NUMERIC HANDPRINT MODULE; POSITIONING; SUBSPACE PROJECTION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 0030176414     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0893-6080(95)00143-3     Document Type: Article

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