Filtering segmentation cuts for digit string recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3044-3053

  Vellasques, E ^a   Oliveira, L S ^a   Britto Jr , A S ^a   Koerich, A L ^a   Sabourin, R ^b  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Filtering; Handwriting recognition; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COST REDUCTION; FAULT DETECTION; FILTRATION; LEAD; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WAVE FILTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; GENERAL (CO); OVER-SEGMENTATION; OVERALL PERFORMANCE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC (ROC);

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 45549094732     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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