A multiclass classification method based on multiple pairwise classifiers

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 809-813

  Hamamura, Tomoyuki ^a   Mizutani, Hiroyuki ^a   Irie, Bunpei ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DECISION THEORY;

A-POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFIER; MULTICLASS CLASSIFICATION METHODS; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; PAIRWISE CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 18044371922     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227774     Document Type: Conference Paper

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