Off-line cursive handwriting recognition using multiple classifier systems - On the influence of vocabulary, ensemble, and training set size

Optics and Lasers in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 3-5, 2005, Pages 437-454

  Günter, Simon ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ensemble methods; Ensemble size; Handwritten text recognition; Hidden Markov model (HMM); Multiple classifier combination; Training set size; Vocabulary size

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ENSEMBLE METHODS; HANDWRITING ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; TRAINING SET SIZES; VOCABULARY SIZE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 9344267740     PISSN: 01438166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optlaseng.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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