A Gabor filter-based method for recognizing handwritten numerals

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-400

  Hamamoto, Yoshihiko ^a   Uchimura, Shunji ^b   Watanabe, Masanori ^a   Yasuda, Tetsuya ^a   Mitani, Yoshihiro ^a   Tomita, Shingo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Gabor filter; Numeral character recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GABOR FILTER; HANDWRITTEN NUMERALS; NUMERAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032042641     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00057-5     Document Type: Article

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