Handwritten-word spotting using biologically inspired features

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1945-1957

  van der Zant, Tijn ^a   Schomaker, Lambert ^a   Haak, Koen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Computer vision; Digital libraries; Gabor filtering; Handwriting retrieval; Image retrieval; Machine learning; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMIMETICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMIMETICS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 54749121714     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.144     Document Type: Article

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