Handwritten digit recognition: Investigation of normalization and feature extraction techniques

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 265-279

  Liu, Cheng Lin ^a   Nakashima, Kazuki ^a   Sako, Hiroshi ^a   Fujisawa, Hiromichi ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspect ratio mapping; Direction feature; Gradient feature; Handwritten digit recognition; NCFE; Normalization

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION;

NORMALIZATION FUNCTIONS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0242539897     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(03)00224-3     Document Type: Article

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