A hierarchical approach to recognition of handwritten Bangla characters

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1467-1484

  Basu, Subhadip ^a   Das, Nibaran ^a   Sarkar, Ram ^a   Kundu, Mahantapas ^a   Nasipuri, Mita ^a   Basu, Dipak Kumar ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Handwritten Bangla character recognition; Hierarchical classification; Multi layer perceptron; Two pass approach to pattern classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTERS; IONIZING RADIATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

ALPHABET RECOGNITION; ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; COMPLEX CHARACTERS; COMPUTER PROCESSING; FEATURE SETS; GENERALIZATION ABILITIES; HAND WRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS; HANDWRITTEN BANGLA CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; HIERARCHICAL APPROACHES; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFICATION; LECTURE NOTES; MLP CLASSIFIERS; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; MULTI-LAYER PERCEPTRONS; MULTI-STAGE APPROACHES; NEURAL CLASSIFIERS; PATTERN CLASSIFIERS; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; STROKE FEATURES; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES; TWO-PASS APPROACH TO PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; TWO-STAGE RECOGNITION; WORD IMAGES;

IMAGE MATCHING;

EID: 62349110656     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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