An evolutionary algorithm for general symbol segmentation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 726-730

  Pearce, Stephen ^a   Ahmed, Maher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CONNECTED CHARACTERS; CONNECTED DIGITS; GRAPH REPRESENTATION; LINE DIAGRAMS; SIMPLE CIRCUITS; SYMBOL RECOGNITION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 4344589921     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227757     Document Type: Conference Paper

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