Hidden Markov Model Based Word Recognition and Its Application to Legal Amount Reading on French Checks

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 404-419

  Knerr, S ^a   Augustin, E ^a   Baret, O ^a   Price, D ^a  

^a A2iA Artif Intell Image Anal ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

FRENCH HANDWRITTEN CHECKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM) BASED WORD RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS; VITERBI ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032096822     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1998.0685     Document Type: Article

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