From data topology to a modular classifier

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Ennaji, Abdellatif ^a   Ribert, Arnaud ^a   Lecourtier, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Clustering; Distributed and modular classification systems; Learning; Neural networks; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CLUSTERING; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER; LEARNING; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; REPRESENTATION SPACE;

NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547505554     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-002-0095-3     Document Type: Article

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