Gabor filters-based feature extraction for character recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 369-379

  Wang, Xuewen ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^a   Liu, Changsong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Gabor filters

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GABOR FILTERS; GRAY SCALE IMAGES; OFF-LINE CURSIVE HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCHCCR);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10044283906     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.08.004     Document Type: Article

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