Multiagents to separating handwritten connected digits

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 593-602

  Alhajj, Reda ^a,b   Elnagar, Ashraf ^c  

^a GLOBAL UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Confidence; Connected digits; Cut point; Handwritten numerals; Multiagents; Segmentation; Touching

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; CONNECTED DIGITS; CUT-POINT; HANDWRITTEN NUMERALS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 27144455438     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.843389     Document Type: Article

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