Multiple classifier methods for offline handwritten text line recognition

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

Volumn 4472 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 72-81

  Bertolami, Roman ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING;

FEATURE SUBSPACE METHOD; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER METHODS; STATISTICAL COMBINATION METHODS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 37249092464     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72523-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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