Recognition of handwritten Chinese characters by combining regularization, Fisher's discriminant and distorted sample generation

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1026-1030

  Leung, K C ^a   Leung, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRICES; DIMENSION REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; DISTORTION MODEL; FEATURE DIMENSIONS; FEATURE VECTORS; FISHER'S DISCRIMINANT; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER; OFFLINE HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION RATES; TRAINING SAMPLE; VIRTUAL TRAINING;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 70449725654     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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