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ISRN Machine Vision
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 834127, 10 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/834127
Research Article

On the Brittleness of Handwritten Digit Recognition Models

Alexander K. Seewald

Seewald Solutions, Leitermayergasse 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria

Received 19 July 2011; Accepted 7 September 2011

Academic Editor: A. Torsello

Copyright © 2012 Alexander K. Seewald. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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