Rejection strategies and confidence measures for a k - NN classifier in an OCR task

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 576-579

  Arlandis, Joaquim ^a   Perez Cortes, Juan C ^a   Cano, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NEAREST NEIGHBORS CLASSIFIERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; HAND WRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE NOISE; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS CLASSIFIERS; K-NN CLASSIFIER;

EID: 10444220453     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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