Automatic feature generation for handwritten digit recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1256-1261

  Gader, Paul D ^a   Khabou, Mohamed All ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropy; Feature generation; Feature selection; Handwritten digit recognition; Information; Neural networks; Orthogonality

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATIC FEATURE GENERATION; FEATURE SELECTION; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030381836     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.546262     Document Type: Article

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