Handwritten isolated word recognition: An approach based on mutual information for feature set validation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 665-669

  Freitas, Cinthia O A ^a   Bortolozzi, Flávio ^a   Sabourin, Robert ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE SETS; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; ISOLATED WORD RECOGNITION; LEGAL AMOUNT; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10444274504     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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