Fast feature selection in an HMM-based multiple classifier system for handwriting recognition

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

Volumn 2781, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-296

  Günter, Simon ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ensemble creation method; Feature selection; Handwritten word recognition; Hidden Markov model (HMM)

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ENSEMBLE CREATION METHODS; ENSEMBLES OF CLASSIFIERS; FAST FEATURE SELECTIONS; HAND-WRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; HMM-BASED; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 35248882109     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45243-0_38     Document Type: Review

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