An evaluation of multi-expert configurations for the recognition of handwritten numerals

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1255-1273

  Rahman, A F R ^a   Fairhurst, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Handwriting analysis; Hierarchical structures; Multiple expert classifiers; Numeral recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER SETS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HANDWRITTEN ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE; MULTIPLE EXPERT CLASSIFIER; NUMERICAL RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032167288     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00161-1     Document Type: Article

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