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                  - O. M. Omidvar and C. L. Wilson. " Massively Parallel Implementation of Neural Network Architectures ," In  Proceedings of the SPIE , volume 1452, pages 532-543, Feb. 25 - Mar. 1, 1991, San Jose, CA.
                  - C. L. Wilson, O. M. Omidvar, "Optimization of Neural Network Topology and Information Content Using Boltzmann Methods," Technical Report  NISTIR 4766  , Feb. 1992.
                  - J. L. Blue and P. J. Grother. "Training Feed Forward Networks Using Conjugate Gradients." In  Conference on Character Recognition and Digitizer Technologies,  volume 1661, pages 179-190, SPIE, San Jose, California, February 1992 and Technical Report  NISTIR 4776  .
                  - C. L. Wilson. "FAUST: A Vision Based Neural Network Multi-Map Pattern Recognition Architecture." In  Proceedings: Applications of Artificial Neural Networks III . SPIE, Orlando, Florida, April 1992 and Technical Report  NISTIR 4805  , March 1992.
                  - C. L. Wilson. " A New Self-Organizing Neural Network Architecture for Parallel Multi-Map Pattern Recognition - FAUST ," to be published in  Progress in Neural Networks , Volume 4, 1993.
                  - P. J. Grother. "Karhunen Loève Feature Extraction for Neural Handwritten Character Recognition. In  Proceedings: Applications of Artificial Neural Networks III . SPIE, Orlando, Florida. April 1992 and Technical Report  NISTIR 4824  .
                  - C. L. Wilson. " Massively Parallel Neural Network Recognition ." In  Proceedings of the IJCNN, Volume III , pages 227- 232, June 1992.
                  - O. M. Omidvar and C. L. Wilson. "Topological Separation Versus Weight Sharing in Neural Network Optimization." In Su- Shing Chen, editor,  Neural and Stochastic Methods in Image and Signal Processing , volume 1766. SPIE, San Diego, California, 1992 and Technical Report  NISTIR 4893  , July 1992.
                  - C. L. Wilson. "Statistical Analysis of Information Content for Training Pattern Recognition Networks," Technical Report  NISTIR 5149  , March 1993 and In  Proceedings, Applications of Artificial Neural Networks IV.  SPIE, Orlando, Florida, April 1993.
                  - G. T. Candela and R. Chellappa. "Comparative Performance of Classification Methods for Fingerprints," Technical Report  NISTIR 5163  , April 1993.
                  - J. L. Blue. "Computational Experience with Radial Basis Function Networks," Technical Report  NISTIR 5168  .
                  - O. M. Omidvar and C. L. Wilson. "Optimization of Adaptive  Resonance Theory Network with Boltzmann Machine," in Dennis W. Ruck, editor,  Science of Artificial Neural Networks II , volume 1966, SPIE, Orlando, FL, 1992 and Technical Report  NISTIR 5176  , April 1993.
                  - P. J. Grother, G. T. Candela. "Comparison of Handprinted Digit Classifiers," Technical Report  NISTIR 5209  , June 1993.
                  - J. L. Blue, G. T. Candela, P. J. Grother, R. Chellappa, C. L. Wilson, J. D. Blue. "  Evaluation of Pattern Classifiers for Fingerprint and OCR Application ," in  Pattern Recognition , 27, pp. 485-501, 1994.
                  - C. L. Wilson, O. M. Omidvar. " Information Content in Neural Net Optimization ." In  Journal of Connection Science , Vol. 6, No. 1, 1994.
                  - M. D. Garris, J. L. Blue, G. T. Candela, D. L. Dimmick, J. Geist, P. J. Grother,S. A. Janet, C. L. Wilson, "NIST Form-Based Handprint Recognition System," Technical Report  NISTIR 5469  , July 1994.
                  - C. L. Wilson, P. J. Grother, C. S. Barnes, "Binary Decision Clustering for Neural Network Based OCR," Technical Report  NISTIR 5542  and Journal  Pattern Recogniton , December 1994.
                  - P. J. Grother, G. T. Candela, J. L. Blue, " Fast Implementation of Nearest Neighbor Classifiers ," in  Pattern Recognition , 30 459-465, 1997.
                  - G. T. Candela, P. J. Grother, C. I. Watson, R. A. Wilkinson, C. L. Wilson, "PCASYS - A Pattern-level Classification Automation System for Fingerprints," Technical Report  NISTIR 5647  , April 1995.
                  - C. L. Wilson, J. L. Blue, O. M. Omidvar, "Improving Neural Network Performance for Character and Fingerprint Classification by Altering Network Dynamics," published in  World Congress on Neural Networks  Proceedings , II, pgs. 151-158, July '95, Washington, DC., and Technical Report  NISTIR 5695  , July 1995.
                  - C. L. Wilson, J. L. Blue, O. M. Omidvar, "Training Dynamics on Neural Network Performance," published in  Neural Networks  Vol. 10, No. 5, pp 907-923, 1997, and Technical Report  NISTIR 5696  , July, 1995.
                  - C. L. Wilson, J. Blue, O. Omidvar, "  Neurodynamics of Learning and Network Performance ," ,  Journal of Electronic Imaging , Vol. 6, pages 379-385, 1997.
                  - M. D. Garris, J. L. Blue, G. T. Candela, P. J. Grother, S. A. Janet, C. L. Wilson, "NIST Form-Based Handprint Recognition System (Release 2.0)," Technical Report  NISTIR 5959  , January 1997.
                  - M. D. Garris, C. L. Wilson, J. Blue, "  Neural Network-Based Systems for Handprint OCR Applications ," ,  IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , Vol. 7, pages 1097-1112, 1998.

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