Fusion of handwritten word classifiers

Methods for fusing multiple handwritten word classifiers are compared on standard data. A novel method based on data-dependent densities in a Choquet fuzzy integral is shown to outperform neural networks, Borda and weighted Borda counts, and Sugeno fuzzy integral.

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