A structural/statistical feature based vector for handwritten character recognition

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 629-641

  Heutte, L ^a   Paquet, T ^a   Moreau, J V ^b   Lecourtier, Y ^a   Olivier, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b Matra Systems and Information   (France)

Author keywords

Feature definition; Handwritten character recognition; Missing values; Statistical classification; Statistical features; Structural features

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL CLASSIFICATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032068263     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(98)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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