An ensemble classifier for offline cursive character recognition using multiple feature extraction techniques

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cruz, Rafael M O ^a   Cavalcanti, George D C ^a   Ren, Tsang Ing ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

CLASSIFIERS ENSEMBLE; COMBINATION RULES; EDGE MAP; ENSEMBLE-CLASSIFIER; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; FEATURES SETS; MULTIPLE FEATURES; OFFLINE; PERFORMANCE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 79959441141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2010.5596482     Document Type: Conference Paper

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