Deep convolutional neural network classifier for handwritten devanagari character recognition

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Volumn 434, Issue , 2016, Pages 551-561

  Singh, Pratibha ^a   Verma, Ajay ^a   Chaudhari, Narendra S ^b  

^a DEVI AHILYA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

CNN; Convolution; Features; MLP; Pooling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; CONVOLUTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED TECHNIQUES; CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; DEEP LEARNING; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FEATURES; IMAGE PIXELS; LAYERED ARCHITECTURE; POOLING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84959019397     PISSN: 21945357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2752-6_54     Document Type: Conference Paper

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