Combining macro and micro features for writer identification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4670, Issue , 2002, Pages 155-166

  Lee, Sangjik ^a   Cha, Sung Hyuk ^a   Srihari, Sargur N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Filtration; Handwriting Identification; Multiple Classifier Combination

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SCANNING;

HANDWRITING IDENTIFICATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036029653     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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