Experiments with adaptation strategies for a prototype-based recognition system for isolated handwritten characters

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 150-159

  Vuori, V ^a   Laaksonen, J ^a   Oja, E ^a   Kangas, J ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Dynamic time warping; Elastic matching; Handwriting recognition; Intelligent user interface; Isolated characters; k nearest neighbor rule; Learning systems; Learning vector quantization; Online recognition; Pattern recognition; Unconstrained writing style

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DYNAMIC TIME WARPING; ELASTIC MATCHING; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES; ISOLATED CHARACTERS; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR RULES; LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION; ON-LINE RECOGNITION; WRITING STYLE;

EXPERIMENTS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0742329438     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013555     Document Type: Article

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