Online and offline handwritten Chinese character recognition: Benchmarking on new databases

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 155-162

  Liu, Cheng Lin ^a   Yin, Fei ^a   Wang, Da Han ^a   Wang, Qiu Feng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Databases; Handwritten Chinese character recognition; Offline; Online

Indexed keywords

CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CHINESE HANDWRITING; CHINESE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; DATA SETS; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURE EXTRACTION; DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; GRADIENT DIRECTION; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; LEVEL-1; MODIFIED QUADRATIC DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; NORMALIZATION METHODS; OFFLINE; OFFLINE HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ONLINE; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; TEST ACCURACY; TRAINING SAMPLE;

BENCHMARKING; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866013178     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.06.021     Document Type: Article

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