Handwritten phrase recognition as applied to street name images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-51

  Kim, Gyeonghwan ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Address interpretation; Connected components; Handwriting recognition; Neural network; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN MATCHING;

ADDRESS INTERPRETATION; HANDWRITTEN PHRASE RECOGNITION; STREET NAME IMAGES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031645929     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00023-X     Document Type: Article

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