Recognition of Off-Line Cursive Handwriting

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 19-38

  Abuhaiba, I S I ^a   Holt, M J J ^b   Datta, S ^b  

^a Loughborough University ^*  (Saudi Arabia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assignment problem; Fuzzy sequential machine; Handwritten cursive text; Off line recognition; Straight line approximation; Temporal information; Token

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE CODING; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEQUENTIAL MACHINES;

OFF LINE CURSIVE HANDWRITING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032123872     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cviu.1997.0629     Document Type: Article

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