Genetic algorithms for feature selection and weighting, a review and study

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 1240-1244

  Hussein, Faten ^a   Kharma, Nawwaf ^b   Ward, Rabab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; FEATURE SELECTION AND WEIGHTING; REDUNDANT FEATURES; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SEARCH SPACES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84951828553     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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