A new representation of shape and its use for high performance in online Arabic character recognition by an associative memory

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 201-210

  Mezghani, Neila ^a,b   Mitiche, Amar ^a   Cheriet, Mohamed ^b  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^b Laboratoire d'Imagerie de Vision et d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIVIA)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arabic characters; Histograms; Kohonen memory; Online recognition; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444433948     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-005-0145-8     Document Type: Article

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