Two-stage recognition of handwritten bangla alphanumeric characters using neural classifiers

Proceedings of the 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IICAI 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1357-1376

  Bhattacharya, U ^a   Parui, S K ^a   Sridhar, M ^b   Kimura, F ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b USA   (United States)

^c MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS; CHAIN CODES; CHARACTER IMAGES; FEATURE VECTORS; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; NEURAL CLASSIFIERS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SHAPE ANALYSIS; TEST SETS; TWO-STAGE RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547323812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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