references.bib

%----------Thesis Bibliography File-----------------------------

@InProceedings{Blumenstein2003,
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  booktitle =	"ICDAR",
  year = 	"2003",
  pages =	"137--141",
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}

@Article{Gaurav2012,
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		 geometry for character recognition",
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  journal =	"CoRR",
  year = 	"2012",
  volume =	"abs/1202.3884",
  bibdate =	"2012-03-01",
  bibsource =	"DBLP,
		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/corr/corr1202.html#abs-1202-3884",
  URL =  	"http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3884",
}

@Article{Hu1962,
  author =	"Ming-Kuei Hu",
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}

@Article{Hagan1994,
  author =	"Martin T. Hagan and Mohammed B. Menhaj",
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}

@Article{Chen1991,
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  title =	"Orthogonal least squares learning algorithm for radial
		 basis function networks",
  journal =	"IEEE Trans. on Neural Networks",
  volume =	"2",
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  year = 	"1991",
  keywords =	"radial basis functions, networks, (methodological)",
}

@Article{Jain2000,
  author =	"A. K. Jain and R. P. W. Duin and J. Mao",
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		 Intelligence",
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}

@Article{Jain1996,
  author =	"O. D. Trier and A. K. Jain and T. Taxt",
  title =	"Feature-Extraction Methods for Character-Recognition:
		 {A} Survey",
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}


@Article{Suen1980,
  author =	"C. Y. Suen and M. Berthod and S. Mori",
  title =	"Automatic Recognition of Handprinted Characters: The
		 State of the Art",
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  month =	apr,
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  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char957.html#TT95994",
}

@Article{Suen1990,
  key =  	"Tappert et al.",
  author =	"Charles C. Tappert and Ching Y. Suen and Toru
		 Wakahara",
  title =	"The State of the Art in On-Line Handwriting
		 Recognition",
  journal =	"IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
		 Intelligence",
  pages =	"787--808",
  volume =	"PAMI-12",
  number =	"8",
  month =	aug,
  year = 	"1990",
  location =	"E \&{} S Library",
}



@InProceedings{Suen1988,
  author =	"C. C. Tappert and C. Y. Suen and T. Wakahara",
  title =	"On-line Handwriting Recognition, {A} Survey",
  booktitle =	"9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition",
  volume =	"2",
  year = 	"1988",
  pages =	"1123--1132",
}

@Article{Suen1992,
  author =	"S. Mori and C. Y. Suen and K. Yamamoto",
  title =	"Historical Review of {OCR} Research and Development",
  journal =	"Proceedings of IEEE",
  volume =	"80",
  year = 	"1992",
  number =	"7",
  month =	jul,
  pages =	"1029--1058",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char957.html#TT95996",
}



@Article{Bozinovic1989,
  author =	"R. M. Bozinovic and S. N. Srihari",
  title =	"Off-Line Cursive Script Word Recognition",
  journal =	"IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine
		 Intelligence",
  volume =	"11",
  year = 	"1989",
  number =	"1",
  month =	jan,
  pages =	"68--83",
  URL =  	"http://ieeexplore.ieee.org:80/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isNumber=900&prod=JNL&arnumber=23114&arSt=+68&ared=+83&arNumber=23114",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char1016.html#TT101400",
}


@Article{Govindan1990,
  author =	"V. K. Govindan and A. P. Shivaprasad",
  title =	"Character Recognition: {A} Review",
  journal =	"Pattern Recognition",
  volume =	"23",
  year = 	"1990",
  number =	"7",
  pages =	"671--683",
  URL =  	"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V14-48N52TJ-2/2/5237586220004ff4593557cf5a8d2500",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char957.html#TT95997",
}


@Article{Bajaj1997,
  author =	"R. Bajaj and S. Chaudhury",
  title =	"Signature Verification Using Multiple Neural
		 Classifiers",
  journal =	"Pattern Recognition",
  volume =	"30",
  year = 	"1997",
  number =	"1",
  month =	jan,
  pages =	"1--7",
  URL =  	"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V14-3SNN1SV-1/2/6398b065ebb76a68c3b9ca821411cdae",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char1021.html#TT102087",
}


@InProceedings{Shaw2008,
  author ="B. Shaw and S. K. Parui and M. Shridhar",
  title ="Offline handwritten Devanagari word recognition: {A}
		 segmentation based approach",
  booktitle ="ICPR",
  year ="2008",
  pages ="1--4",
  URL ="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2008.4761556",
  bibsource ="http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char1030.html#TT102740",
}



@Article{Sandhya2008,
  title =	"Fine Classification \& Recognition of Hand Written
		 Devnagari Characters with Regular Expressions \&
		 Minimum Edit Distance Method",
  author =	"P. S. Deshpande and Latesh Malik and Sandhya Arora",
  journal =	"JCP",
  year = 	"2008",
  number =	"5",
  volume =	"3",
  bibdate =	"2011-09-02",
  bibsource =	"DBLP,
		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/jcp/jcp3.html#DeshpandeMA08",
  pages =	"11--17",
  URL =  	"http://dx.doi.org/10.4304/jcp.3.5.11-17",
}

@Book{Pratt1991,
  author =	"William K. Pratt",
  title =	"Digital Image Processing (2nd Edition)",
  year = 	"1991",
  publisher =	"John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.",
  address =	"New York, New York",
  keywords =	"digital image processing",
}



@Book{Jain1989,
  author =	"Anil K. Jain",
  title =	"Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing",
  year = 	"1989",
  publisher =	"Prentice-Hall",
  address =	"Englewood Cliffs, NJ",
  keywords =	"digital image processing",
}



@Book{Gonzalez2008,
  author =	"R. C. Gonzalez and R. E. Woods",
  title =	"Digital Image Processing, Third Edition",
  publisher =	"Prentice Hall",
  year = 	"2008",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/book29.html#TT1655",
}


@Article{Santosh2009,
  title =	"A comprehensive survey on on-line handwriting
		 recognition technology and its real application to the
		 Nepalese natural handwriting",
  author =	"K. C. Santosh and Cholwich Nattee",
  publisher =	"HAL - CCSD",
  year = 	"2009",
  month =	feb # "~09",
  bibsource =	"OAI-PMH server at hal.archives-ouvertes.fr",
  identifier =	"HAL:inria-00354242, version 1",
  language =	"EN",
  oai =  	"oai:hal.archives-ouvertes.fr:inria-00354242_v1",
  subject =	"Computer Science/Computer Vision and Pattern
		 Recognition; Handwriting Recognition System;
		 Pre-processing; Feature Vector; Dynamic Time Warping;
		 Agglomerating Hierarchical Clustering; Nepali",
  URL =  	"http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00354242/en/;
		 http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/35/42/42/PDF/8_Jan_Santosh_KC_A_COMPREHENSIVE_SURVEY_ON_ON-LINE_HANDWRITING_edited_santosh_.pdf",
}



@Article{Santosh2007,
  title =	"Template-based Nepali Handwritten Alphanumeric Character Recognition",
  author =	"K. C. Santosh and Cholwich Nattee",
  journal =	"Thammasat International Journal of Science and Technology (TIJSAT), Thammasat University, Thailand",
  year = 	"2007",
  number =	"1",
  volume =	"12",
  }

@Article{Srikrishna2011,
  author =	"N. VenkateswaraRao and A. Shrikhna and B. RaveendraBabu and G. Rama Mohan Babu ",
  title =	"An Efficient Feature Extraction and Classification of Handwritten Digits Using Neural Networks",
  journal =	"International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Applications (IJCSEA)",
  volume =	"1",
  year = 	"2011",
  number =	"5",
  month =	oct,
 }
%----------------------------------------------------------------------
@InProceedings{Sabri2010,
  title =	"Recognition of Handwritten Arabic (Indian) Numerals
		 Using Freeman's Chain Codes and Abductive Network
		 Classifiers",
  author =	"Isah A. Lawal and Radwan E. Abdel-Aal and Sabri A.
		 Mahmoud",
  publisher =	"IEEE",
  year = 	"2010",
  bibdate =	"2010-10-23",
  bibsource =	"DBLP,
		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icpr/icpr2010.html#LawalAM10",
  booktitle =	"ICPR",
  crossref =	"conf/icpr/2010",
  pages =	"1884--1887",
  URL =  	"http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.464",
}

@InProceedings{Sharma2006,
  author =	"N. Sharma and U. Pal and F. Kimura and S. Pal",
  title =	"Recognition of Off-Line Handwritten Devnagari
		 Characters Using Quadratic Classifier",
  booktitle =	"Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and
		 Image Processing",
  year = 	"2006",
  pages =	"805--816",
  URL =  	"http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11949619_72",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char1030.html#TT102755",
}

@Misc{Sandhya2010,
  title =	"Multiple Classifier Combination for Off-line
		 Handwritten Devnagari Character Recognition",
  author =	"Sandhya Arora and Debotosh Bhattacharjee and Mita
		 Nasipuri and Dipak Kumar Basu and Mahantapas Kundu",
  year = 	"2010",
  month =	jun # "~30",
  abstract =	"This work presents the application of weighted
		 majority voting technique for combination of
		 classification decision obtained from three Multi_Layer
		 Perceptron(MLP) based classifiers for Recognition of
		 Handwritten Devnagari characters using three different
		 feature sets. The features used are intersection,
		 shadow feature and chain code histogram features.
		 Shadow features are computed globally for character
		 image while intersection features and chain code
		 histogram features are computed by dividing the
		 character image into different segments. On
		 experimentation with a dataset of 4900 samples the
		 overall recognition rate observed is 92.16% as we
		 considered top five choices results. This method is
		 compared with other recent methods for Handwritten
		 Devnagari Character Recognition and it has been
		 observed that this approach has better success rate
		 than other methods.",
  bibsource =	"OAI-PMH server at export.arxiv.org",
  identifier =	"ICSC 2008",
  oai =  	"oai:arXiv.org:1006.5913",
  subject =	"Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern
		 Recognition",
  URL =  	"http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5913",
}




@Misc{Sandhya2010_1,
  title =	"Performance Comparison of {SVM} and {ANN} for
		 Handwritten Devnagari Character Recognition",
  author =	"Sandhya Arora and Debotosh Bhattacharjee and Mita
		 Nasipuri and L. Malik and M. Kundu and D. K. Basu",
  year = 	"2010",
  month =	jun # "~30",
  abstract =	"Classification methods based on learning from examples
		 have been widely applied to character recognition from
		 the 1990s and have brought forth significant
		 improvements of recognition accuracies. This class of
		 methods includes statistical methods, artificial neural
		 networks, support vector machines (SVM), multiple
		 classifier combination, etc. In this paper, we discuss
		 the characteristics of the some classification methods
		 that have been successfully applied to handwritten
		 Devnagari character recognition and results of SVM and
		 ANNs classification method, applied on Handwritten
		 Devnagari characters. After preprocessing the character
		 image, we extracted shadow features, chain code
		 histogram features, view based features and longest run
		 features. These features are then fed to Neural
		 classifier and in support vector machine for
		 classification. In neural classifier, we explored three
		 ways of combining decisions of four MLP's designed for
		 four different features.",
  bibsource =	"OAI-PMH server at export.arxiv.org",
  identifier =	"IJCSI 2010",
  oai =  	"oai:arXiv.org:1006.5902",
  subject =	"Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern
		 Recognition",
  URL =  	"http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.5902",
}

@InProceedings{Yan2011,
  title =	"Handwriting Character Recognition as a Service: {A}
		 New Handwriting Recognition System Based on Cloud
		 Computing",
  author =	"Yan Gao and Lianwen Jin and Cong He and Guibin Zhou",
  publisher =	"IEEE",
  year = 	"2011",
  bibdate =	"2011-11-07",
  bibsource =	"DBLP,
		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icdar/icdar2011.html#GaoJHZ11",
  booktitle =	"ICDAR",
  crossref =	"conf/icdar/2011",
  ISBN = 	"978-1-4577-1350-7",
  pages =	"885--889",
  URL =  	"http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6065245",
}

@Article{Vikas2011,
  title =	"A Review of Research on Devnagari Character
		 Recognition",
  author =	"Vikas J. Dongre and Vijay H. Mankar",
  journal =	"CoRR",
  year = 	"2011",
  volume =	"abs/1101.2491",
  bibdate =	"2011-12-05",
  bibsource =	"DBLP,
		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/corr/corr1101.html#abs-1101-2491",
  URL =  	"http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2491",
}

@Article{Vinciarelli2002,
  author =	"Alessandro Vinciarelli",
  title =	"A survey on off-line Cursive Word Recognition",
  journal =	"Pattern Recognition",
  volume =	"35",
  year = 	"2002",
  number =	"7",
  month =	jul,
  pages =	"1433--1446",
  URL =  	"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V14-45CTFWM-2/2/5383d107ce4e0ee6b580c6eafe72086f",
  bibsource =	"http://www.visionbib.com/bibliography/char1017.html#TT101606",
}

@Article{Ghosh2010,
  title =	"Script Recognition - {A} Review",
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  year = 	"2010",
  number =	"12",
  volume =	"32",
  bibdate =	"2011-11-07",
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		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/pami/pami32.html#GhoshDS10",
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  URL =  	"http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2010.30",
}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Plamondon2000,
  title =	"On-Line and Off-Line Handwriting Recognition: {A}
		 Comprehensive Survey",
  author =	"R{\'e}jean Plamondon and Sargur N. Srihari",
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  year = 	"2000",
  number =	"1",
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Suen2003,
  title =	"Large vocabulary off-line handwriting recognition: {A}
		 survey",
  author =	"Alessandro L. Koerich and Robert Sabourin and Ching Y.
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  year = 	"2003",
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  bibdate =	"2004-01-16",
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		 http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/paa/paa6.html#KoerichSS03",
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  URL =  	"http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10044-002-0169-3",
}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@InProceedings{Nguyen1990,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@InCollection{Blum1967,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
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@Book{Haykin1999,
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}

%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Book{Hagan1996,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Zhang2004,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------\\
@Article{Kan2002,
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		 orthogonal Fourier-Mellin moments",
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Rosin1999,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@InProceedings{Rosion2000,
  author =	"P. L. Rosin",
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		 Triangularity",
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@InProceedings{Nayak2007,
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}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Otsu1979,
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%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Ashok2011,
  author =	"J. Ashok and E. G. Rajan",
  title =	"Off-line handwritteen character recognition suing radial basis function",
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  year = 	"2011",
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  pages =	"792--795",
}
%------------------------------------------------------------------------
@Article{Bunke2003,
  author =	"H. Bunke",
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  present and future",
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  year = 	"2003",
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}