The purpose of this study is to investigate handwritten online character recognition by Kohonen neural networks which learn class conditional Gibbs densities from training samples. The characters are represented by histograms (empirical distributions) of features. The Kohonen network learning algorithm implements a gradient ascent which maximizes an entropy criterion under constraints. Using a database of handwritten online Arabic characters produced without constraints by a large number of writers, we conducted extensive experiments which show the advantage of this Gibbsian Kohonen network over other classifiers such as a regular Kohonen neural network and a Gibbsian Bayes classifier. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Mezghani, N., & Mitiche, A. (2008). A gibbsian kohonen network for online arabic character recognition. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 5359 LNCS, pp. 493–500). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89646-3_48
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