Handwritten bank check recognition of courtesy amounts

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 203-222

  Palacios, Rafael ^a   Gupta, Amar ^b   Wang, Patrick S ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA COMILLAS   (Spain)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automation of banking systems; Handwritten checks; neural network based reading; reading of unconstrained handwritten material

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS;

AUTOMATION OF BANKING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC TECHNIQUE; HANDWRITTEN CHECKS; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK BASED READING; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 67749119935     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467804001373     Document Type: Article

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