Feature selection in the recognition of handwritten Chinese characters

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 495-502

  Leung, C H ^a   Sze, L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Character stroke features; Chinese OCR; Feature extraction; Karhunen Loeve analysis; Stroke density

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VECTORS;

HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; KARHUNEN LOEVE METHOD;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031247987     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(97)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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