Handwritten word recognition with character and inter-character neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 158-164

  Gader, Paul D ^a   Mohamed, Magdi ^a   Chiang, Jung Hsien ^a  

^a University of Missouri Columbia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

OFF LINE HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION SYSTEM; WORD IMAGE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031077660     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.552199     Document Type: Article

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