Strategies for training robust neural network based digit recognizers on unbalanced data sets

Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 148-153

  Vajda, Szilárd ^a   Fink, Gernot A ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digit recognition; Kernel density estimation; Unbalanced data

Indexed keywords

BANGLA DIGIT; DECISION SURFACES; DIGIT RECOGNITION; DIGIT RECOGNIZERS; IMBALANCED DATA; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; OVER SAMPLING; UNBALANCED DATA; UNDER-SAMPLING;

ESTIMATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79951707172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2010.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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