Modeling inverse covariance matrices by expansion of tied basis matrices for online handwritten Chinese character recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3296-3302

  Wang, Yongqiang ^a,b   Huo, Qiang ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Covariance modeling; Handwriting recognition; MQDF; Pattern classification

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DATABASE; COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS; COVARIANCE MODELING; EIGENVECTORS; EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; FEATURE VECTORS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; INVERSE COVARIANCE; MATRIX; MEAN VECTOR; MODIFIED QUADRATIC DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; MQDF; NEW APPROACHES; ON-LINE HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN CLASSIFICATION; RECOGNITION ACCURACY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEEDFORWARD NEURAL NETWORKS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

EID: 68349090235     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.10.022     Document Type: Article

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