A confidence value estimation method for handwritten Kanji character recognition and its application to candidate reduction

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 263-270

  Ishidera, Eiki ^a   Nishiwaki, Daisuke ^a   Sato, Atsushi ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Address recognition; Bayes decision theory; Confidence value; Handwritten Kanji recognition; Nonlinear subspace

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS RECOGNITION; BAYES DECISION THEORY; CONFIDENCE VALUES; HANDWRITTEN KANJI RECOGNITION; NONLINEAR SUBSPACE;

CHARACTER SETS; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VECTORS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84892705788     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-003-0118-8     Document Type: Article

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