Combined classification of handwritten digits using the ‘virtual test sample method’

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2096, Issue , 2001, Pages 109-118

  Dahmen, Jörg ^a   Keysers, Daniel ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; DISTANCE MEASURE; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE DENSITIES; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; US POSTAL SERVICES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84957029801     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48219-9_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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