Human identification of letters in mixed-script handwriting: An upper bound on recognition rates

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

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 78-82

  Barrière, Caroline ^a   Plamondon, Réjean ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algorithm comparison methodology; Letter identification; Mixed script recognition; Reading experiment

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ALGORITHM COMPARISON METHODOLOGY; MIXED SCRIPT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032002183     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3477.658580     Document Type: Article

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