Enhancing multiple expert decision combination strategies through exploitation of a priori information sources

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-49

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; EXPERT SYSTEMS;

MULTIPLE EXPERT DECISION COMBINATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032678632     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19990015     Document Type: Article

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