Methodology for the design of NN-based month-word recognizers written on Brazilian bank checks

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-49

  Kapp, Marcelo N ^a   Freitas, Cinthia O de A ^b   Sabourin, Robert ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Handwritten word recognition; Neural networks; Rejection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

FEATURE SELECTIONS; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 33751177316     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2006.01.005     Document Type: Article

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