A hierarchical neural network architecture for handwritten numeral recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 289-294

  Cao, J ^a   Ahmadi, M ^a   Shridhar, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes learning; Clustering; Handwritten character recognition; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BAYES LEARNING; CLUSTERING; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OJA RULE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0031061994     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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