Handwritten word recognition using segmentation-free hidden Markov modeling and segmentation-based dynamic programming techniques

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 548-554

  Mohamed, Magdi ^a   Gader, Paul ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Character segmentation; Dynamic programming; Handwritten word recognition; Hidden markov models; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN WORD RECOGNITION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELLING; LEXICON; SEGMENTATION BASED DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030143570     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.494644     Document Type: Article

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