An expert system for general symbol recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1975-1988

  Ahmed, Maher ^a,b,c   Ward, Rabab Kreidieh ^b,d  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Mapping; Models; OCR; Pattern recognition; Structural

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

SYMBOL RECOGNITION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034563649     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00191-0     Document Type: Article

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