Generalised approach to the recognition of structurally similar handwritten characters using multiple expert classifiers

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-22

  Fairhurst, M C ^a   Rahman, A F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Groupwise classification; Image classification; Multi expert configurations

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

MULTIPLE EXPERT CLASSIFICATION; STRUCTURALLY SIMILAR HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031073303     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19970987     Document Type: Article

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