Investigation of a novel self-configurable multiple classifier system for character recognition

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 1002-1006

  Sirlantzis, K ^a   Fairhurst, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; MULTICLASSIFIER SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL MECHANISM; SELF-CONFIGURATION PROCESS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; VALIDATING EXPERIMENTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038228369     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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