Character Recognition Systems: A Guide for Students and Practitioners

Mohamed Cheriet is Professor in the Department of Automation Engineering at the École de Technologie Supérieure of University of Quebec, Montreal. He is the Director of Synchromedia Consortium, working in the fields of image processing, document analysis and recognition, learning algorithms, perception, and intellipresence. Nawwaf Kharma is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal. He is Director of the Concordia Computational Intelligence Lab (CeCIL) and a member of the ACM-SIGEVO. ChenG-LIn Liu is a Research Professor and the Deputy Director of the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is working in the fields of pattern recognition, machine learning, and document analysis. Ching Y. Suen is the Director of the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence of Concordia University in Montreal, working in the fields of handwriting recognition and human-computer communications.