Improving writer identification by means of feature selection and extraction

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 131-135

  Schlapbach, Andreas ^a   Kilchherr, Vivian ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Feature selection; Writer identification

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PATTERN MATCHING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE SUBSETS; HANDWRITING; MULTIPLE DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947387981     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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