Off-line writer identification and verification using Gaussian mixture models

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 90, Issue , 2008, Pages 409-428

  Schlapbach, Andreas ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 38049028457     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76280-5_16     Document Type: Article

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