Feature dimensionality reduction for the verification of handwritten numerals

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 296-307

  Zhang, P ^a,f,g,h   Bui, T D ^a,b,c,d,e   Suen, C Y ^a,b,i,j  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*  (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^d GRIAO ^*  (Canada)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j Fac of Eng and Computer Science

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Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Dimensionality reduction; Discriminant analysis; Handwritten character recognition and verification; Hybrid feature extraction; OCR

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844284038     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-004-0226-1     Document Type: Article

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