On using entropy for enhancing handwriting preprocessing

Entropy

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2324-2350

  Holzinger, Andreas ^a   Stocker, Christof ^a   Peischl, Bernhard ^b   Simonic, Klaus Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Softnet Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Entropy; Handwriting recognition; Point cloud data; Preprocessing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871664015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e14112324     Document Type: Article

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