Robust handwritten character recognition with features inspired by visual ventral stream

Neural Processing Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-111

  Borji, Ali ^a   Hamidi, Mandana ^b   Mahmoudi, Fariborz ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

^b Azad University   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

C2 features; Handwritten character recognition; HMAX; Optical character recognition; Visual system; Visual ventral stream

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

C2 FEATURES; DATA SETS; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HMAX; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION RATES; STANDARD CLASSIFIERS; TEST SETS; TRAINING SETS; TRANSLATION INVARIANTS; TWO-STAGE CLASSIFIER; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL VENTRAL STREAM;

STANDARDS;

EID: 52949098342     PISSN: 13704621     EISSN: 1573773X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11063-008-9084-y     Document Type: Article

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