A novel feature extraction technique for the recognition of segmented handwritten characters

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 137-141

  Blumenstein, M ^a   Verma, B ^a   Basli, H ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; NEURAL NETWORKS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

BENCHMARK DATABASE; CHARACTER FEATURE EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUES; HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; NEURAL ARCHITECTURES; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84945945885     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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