A novel SVM-based handwritten Tamil character recognition system

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 173-180

  Shanthi, N ^a   Duraiswamy, K ^a  

^a K S RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Preprocessing; Support vector machine; Tamil character recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951767358     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-009-0147-0     Document Type: Article

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