An improved handwritten Chinese character recognition system using support vector machine

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1849-1856

  Dong, Jian Xiong ^a   Krzyzak, Adam ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

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

Author keywords

Chinese characters recognition; Feature extraction; Normalization; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHINESE CHARACTERS RECOGNITION; DATA SETS; NORMALIZATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 22944436539     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2005.03.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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