Recognition of handwritten digits based on contour information

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-255

  Cheng, Dahai ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Contour information; Fourier descriptors; Handwritten digit recognition; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

CONTOUR INFORMATION; FOURIER DESCRIPTORS; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032019455     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00046-0     Document Type: Article

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