Off-line, handwritten numeral recognition by perturbation method

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 535-539

  Ha, Thien M ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision combination; K nearest neighbor rule; Neural networks; Perturbation method; Writing habits and styles; Writing instruments, reversing process

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031143198     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.589216     Document Type: Article

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