Multilinguistic handwritten character recognition by bayesian decision-based neural networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 2781-2789

  Fu, Hsin Chia ^a   Xu, Yeong Yuh ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian decision based neural networks; Optical character recognition; Self growing probabilistic decisionbased neural networks; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN DECISION-BASED NEURAL NETWORKS (BDNN); MULTILINGUISTIC HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SELF-GROWING PROBABILISTIC DECISION-BASED NEURAL NETWORKS (SPDNN); SUPERVISED LEARNING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0032188513     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/78.720379     Document Type: Article

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