A feature selection algorithm for handwritten character recognition

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cordella, L ^a   De Stefano, C ^b   Fontanella, F ^b   Marrocco, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

CLASS SEPARABILITY; CLASSIFIER PERFORMANCE; EVALUATION FUNCTION; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHM; FITNESS FUNCTIONS; HAND WRITTEN CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 77957964918     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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