Extraction and analysis of document examiner features from vector skeletons of grapheme 'th'

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3872 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 196-207

  Pervouchine, Vladimir ^a   Leedham, Graham ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

FORENSIC DOCUMENT; GRAPHEME; VECTOR SKELETONS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745526432     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11669487_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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