New approach for segmentation and recognition of handwritten numeral strings

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5676, Issue , 2005, Pages 92-100

  Sadri, J ^a   Suen, C Y ^a   Bui, Tien D ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithms; Handwritten digit recognition; Neural networks; Numeral string recognition; Numeral string segmentation

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION; NUMERAL STRING RECOGNITION; NUMERAL STRING SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION PATHS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 21944438753     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.586046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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