A structural and relational approach to handwritten word recognition

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

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 847-861

  Buse, Richard ^a   Liu, Zhi Qiang ^a   Caelli, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABOR FILTERS; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; OFFLINE WORD RECOGNITION SYSTEM;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031258162     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.623237     Document Type: Article

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