Eigen-deformations for elastic matching based handwritten character recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2031-2040

  Uchida, Seiichi ^a   Sakoe, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eigen deformation; Elastic matching; Handwritten character recognition; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC MATCHING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038347410     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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