Discriminative quadratic feature learning for handwritten Chinese character recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 49, Issue , 2016, Pages 7-18

  Zhou, Ming Ke ^a   Zhang, Xu Yao ^a   Yin, Fei ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Dimensionality promotion; Discriminative feature learning; Handwritten Chinese character recognition; Quadratic correlation; Training set expansion

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CORRELATION METHODS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHINESE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DIMENSIONALITY PROMOTION; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURE EXTRACTION; DISCRIMINATIVE FEATURES; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MODIFIED QUADRATIC DISCRIMINANT FUNCTIONS; TRAINING SET EXPANSION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84942683646     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.07.007     Document Type: Article

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