Optical character recognition in real environments using neural networks and k-nearest neighbor

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 739-748

  Matei, O ^a   Pop, P C ^a   Valean H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Electricity meter; Gas meter; k nearest neighbor; Neural networks; Optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; GAS METERS; MOTION COMPENSATION; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DIFFERENT LIGHTS; ELECTRICITY METERS; EXPOSURE CONDITIONS; HIGH-ACCURACY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); REAL ENVIRONMENTS; TRAINING EPOCHS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84888328793     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-013-0456-2     Document Type: Article

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