Off-line unconstrained handwritten word recognition

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 259-280

  Cai, Jinhai ^a,b   Liu, Zhi Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

GABOR FILTER; OFF-LINE UNCONSTRAINED HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033738014     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0218-0014(00)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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