The role of holistic paradigms in handwritten word recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 149-164

  Madhvanath, Sriganesh ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN MATCHING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; HOLISTIC PARADIGMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035249530     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.908966     Document Type: Article

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