Combining neural gas and learning vector quantization for cursive character recognition

Neurocomputing

Volumn 51, Issue , 2003, Pages 147-159

  Camastra, Francesco ^a   Vinciarelli, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crossvalidation; Cursive character recognition; Learning vector quantization; Neural gas; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

LEARNING VECTOR QUANTIZATION (LVQ); NEURAL GASES (NL);

NEUROLOGY; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 84867175210     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00613-6     Document Type: Article

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