SVM-based hierarchical architectures for handwritten Bangla character recognition

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-108

  Bhowmik, Tapan Kumar ^a   Ghanty, Pradip ^b   Roy, Anandarup ^c   Parui, Swapan Kumar ^c  

^a Read Ink Technologies Pvt Ltd   (India)

^b Praxis Softek Solutions Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bangla; Fusion; Grouping of classes; Handwritten character recognition; Hierarchical learning architectures; MLP; RBF; SVM

Indexed keywords

BANGLA; FUSION; GROUPING OF CLASSES; HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HIERARCHICAL LEARNING ARCHITECTURES; MLP; RBF; SVM;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFIERS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 67650444304     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-009-0084-x     Document Type: Article

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