Recognition of Arabic (Indian) bank check digits using log-gabor filters

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-456

  Mahmoud, Sabri A ^a   Al Khatib, Wasfi G ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic (Indian) digits; Feature extraction; Hidden markov models; Log Gabor filters; Nearest neighbor; Recognition of arabic bank check digits; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARABIC (INDIAN) DIGITS; BANK CHECKS; LOG-GABOR FILTER; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; SUPPORT VECTOR;

ASPECT RATIO; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84855456490     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-010-0235-2     Document Type: Article

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