Neural-network classifiers for recognizing total unconstrained handwritten numerals

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-53

  Cho, Sung Bae ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Handwritten numeral recognition; Hidden Markov models; Hybrid classifiers; Multiple neural networks; Self organizing feature maps

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

HANDWRITTEN NUMERICAL RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); MULTIPLE MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON (MLP); STRUCTURE ADAPTIVE SELF ORGANIZING MAP (SOM);

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030784110     PISSN: 10459227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/72.554190     Document Type: Article

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