Neural networks with hybrid morphological/rank/linear nodes: A unifying framework with applications to handwritten character recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 945-960

  Pessoa, Lúcio F C ^a   Maragos, Petros ^b  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Back propagation algorithm; Handwritten character recognition; Morphological systems; MRL filters; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKPROPAGATION; DIGITAL FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MORPHOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033879503     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00157-0     Document Type: Article

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