Mathematical symbol recognition with support vector machines

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1326-1332

  Malon, Christopher ^a   Uchida, Seiichi ^a   Suzuki, Masakazu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mathematical document; Mathematical symbol recognition; OCR; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); OBJECT RECOGNITION;

MATHEMATICAL DOCUMENTS; MATHEMATICAL SYMBOL RECOGNITION; TRAINING DATA;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 43249087434     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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