Recognition of hand-printed Latin characters based on generalized Hough transform and decision tree learning techniques

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 369-387

  Amin, Adnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL THINNING ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033729531     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0218-0014(00)00024-6     Document Type: Article

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